[Distutils] obtaining project name and packages

[Wes Turner]

On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 1:55 PM, Thomas Kluyver <thomas at kluyver.me.uk>
wrote:

> I have a tool that does this from a wheel:
> https://github.com/takluyver/wheeldex
>
> From an sdist, I think you need to either build a wheel or install it
> before you can get this information reliably.
>

Src: https://code.launchpad.net/~tseaver/pkginfo/trunk

PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pkginfo

This package provides an API for querying the distutils metadata written in
> the PKG-INFO file inside a source distriubtion (an sdist) or a binary
> distribution (e.g., created by running bdist_egg). It can also query the
> EGG-INFO directory of an installed distribution, and the *.egg-info stored
> in a “development checkout” (e.g, created by running setup.py develop).
>

Docs: https://pythonhosted.org/pkginfo/

https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~tseaver/pkginfo/trunk/files/head:/pkginfo/tests/


> Some of my installed packages have a 'top_level.txt' file in the
> .dist-info folder, containing a list of the top-level package names
> installed by that distribution. I don't believe this is formally
> specified anywhere, though, and packages created by flit do not have it.
>
> Thomas
>
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2017, at 07:41 PM, Chris Jerdonek wrote:
> > Hi, this seems like a simple question, but I haven't been able to find
> > the answer online:
> >
> > What is the current recommended way to get (1) the name of a project,
> > and (2) the names of the top-level packages installed by a project
> > (not counting the project's dependencies).  You have access to / can
> > run the project's setup.py, and you're also allowed to assume that the
> > project is installed.
> >
> > For example, for (1) I know you can do--
> >
> >     $ python setup.py --name
> >
> > But I'm not sure if accessing setup.py is no longer recommended (as
> > opposed to going through a tool like pip).
> >
> > Thanks a lot,
> > --Chris
> > _______________________________________________
> > Distutils-SIG maillist  -  Distutils-SIG at python.org
> > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
> _______________________________________________
> Distutils-SIG maillist  -  Distutils-SIG at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/attachments/20170329/033013d4/attachment.html>