[Distutils] introspecting package data

[Chris Withers]

Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Chris Withers<chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I hope this is a silly question and I'm just missing something, but how do I
>> introspect information from setup.py when I'm not using setuptools?
>>
>> (ie: pkg_resources for those who refuse to drink the setuptools koolaid?)
>>
>> cheers,
> 
> What do you want to do exactly ? And do you do it with setuptools ?
> 
> If it's about setup.py I'm guesssing it's done on a distribution
> source, not an installed source ?

I'm building Sphinx documentation, but I want the conf.py to be driven 
right from the package it's in, rather than having to manually enter the 
information again...

Chris