On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 9:37 AM Baptiste Carvello <devel2021@baptiste-carvello.net> wrote:

Hi,

sorry for being late to the party, but I may not be the only one wondering…

Le 14/04/2021 à 20:56, Barry Warsaw a écrit :
>
> I’d forgotten that this PEP was in Deferred state. I think it should be rejected and I plan on making that change. importlib.metadata is a much better approach to programmatically determining package versions.
>
> https://docs.python.org/3/library/importlib.metadata.html#distribution-versions

This is indeed the correct approach, thanks for letting me learn this.

However, I unsuccessfully searched for the canonical way to look up the
distribution name based on either a module name or an imported module
object. Is there one?

If you mean how to tie a module back to its name on PyPI, you should be able to look up the "Name" in the project's metadata: https://docs.python.org/3/library/importlib.metadata.html#distribution-metadata.

-Brett

Looks like it could be computed based on information in
"*.egg-info/installed-files.txt", but it's far from trivial. Is
"installed-files.txt" even guaranteed to exist for all distributions?

Cheers,
Baptiste
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