[Python-Dev] PEP 376 - get_egginfo_files

[Sridhar Ratnakumar]

On Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:46:58 -0700, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/7/5 P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com>:
>> At 05:26 PM 7/5/2009 +0100, Paul Moore wrote:
>>>
>>> def get_distribution(name):
>>>    for d in get_distributions():
>>>        if d.name == name:
>>>            return d
>>>    return None
>>
>> Btw, this is broken code anyway, because it's not handling
>> case-insensitivity or name canonicalization.  (I've mentioned these  
>> issue
>> previously on the distutils-sig.)
> Fair point. (Although I don't recall your distutils-sig posting, so
> I'm not sure what you mean by "name canonicalisation").

Correct me if I'm wrong - I believe he was referring to the `safe_name`  
function:

   http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2005-September/005120.html

-srid