[Distutils] Using `pkg_resources` without importing the module

[cool-RR]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:33 AM, P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:

> At 09:25 PM 7/10/2011 +0200, cool-RR wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I want to use `pkg_resources` to retrieve an image file from a Python
>> package. But I want to do this without importing the actual package. Is this
>> possible using `pkg_resources`, or does it import the package?
>>
>
> It imports the package, as it needs to know what loader object was used, to
> know whether it will be reading from a zipfile or whatever else.
>

Hm. Are you familiar with any other method that can be used to get resources
without importing?

If you don't, then my next direction is to combine `pkg_resources` with my
"module-tasting" technique; using an `__import__` hook to do a very
minimialistic import of a module/package, without importing any other
modules that it tries to import. Do you think that this minimalistic import
will give `pkg_resources` enough data (about the loader or otherwise) to get
the resources?


Ram.
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