On 2 November 2017 at 18:46, Nathaniel Smith <njs@pobox.com> wrote:
But unfortuately this hasn't been standardized, and there's currently no way to do the lookup from the stdlib, so maybe this is not so helpful for IDLE...
The entry point file format was recently promoted to a PyPA interoperability spec (without a PEP, as we documented it as-is, rather than changing anything): https://packaging.python.org/specifications/entry-points/ While the point about the standard library lacking the ability to read the metadata for installed packages still stands, it's also not too hard to implement a rudimentary version that just iterates over sys.path looking for `entry_points.txt` files in `*.dist-info` subdirectories. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia