[Distutils] obtaining project name and packages

[Wes Turner]

cd ./lib/python2.7/site-packages/notebook-4.4.1.dist-info
cat metadata.json | python -m json.tool

{
    "classifiers": [
        "Intended Audience :: Developers",
        "Intended Audience :: System Administrators",
        "Intended Audience :: Science/Research",
        "License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License",
        "Programming Language :: Python",
        "Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7",
        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3"
    ],
    "extensions": {
        "python.commands": {
            "wrap_console": {
                "jupyter-nbextension": "notebook.nbextensions:main",
                "jupyter-notebook": "notebook.notebookapp:main",
                "jupyter-serverextension": "notebook.serverextensions:main"
            }
        },
        "python.details": {
            "contacts": [
                {
                    "email": "jupyter at googlegroups.com",
                    "name": "Jupyter Development Team",
                    "role": "author"
                }
            ],
            "document_names": {
                "description": "DESCRIPTION.rst"
            },
            "project_urls": {
                "Home": "http://jupyter.org"
            }
        },
        "python.exports": {
            "console_scripts": {
                "jupyter-nbextension": "notebook.nbextensions:main",
                "jupyter-notebook": "notebook.notebookapp:main",
                "jupyter-serverextension": "notebook.serverextensions:main"
            }
        }
    },
    "extras": [
        "doc",
        "test"
    ],
    "generator": "bdist_wheel (0.29.0)",
    "keywords": [
        "Interactive",
        "Interpreter",
        "Shell",
        "Web"
    ],
    "license": "BSD",
    "metadata_version": "2.0",
    "name": "notebook",
    "platform": "Linux",
    "run_requires": [
        {
            "extra": "doc",
            "requires": [
                "Sphinx (>=1.1)"
            ]
        },
        {
            "requires": [
                "ipykernel",
                "ipython-genutils",
                "jinja2",
                "jupyter-client",
                "jupyter-core",
                "nbconvert",
                "nbformat",
                "tornado (>=4)",
                "traitlets"
            ]
        },
        {
            "extra": "test",
            "requires": [
                "nose",
                "requests"
            ]
        },
        {
            "environment": "python_version == \"2.7\"",
            "extra": "test",
            "requires": [
                "mock"
            ]
        },
        {
            "environment": "sys_platform != \"win32\"",
            "requires": [
                "terminado (>=0.3.3)"
            ]
        }
    ],
    "summary": "A web-based notebook environment for interactive computing",
    "version": "4.4.1"
}


On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 3:19 PM, Wes Turner <wes.turner at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> 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
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