[Python-Dev] "setuptools has divided the Python community"

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On 26 Mar, 07:22 pm, barry at python.org wrote:
>One thing that /would/ be helpful though is the ability to list all 
>the resources under a specific package path.  This is (I think) one 
>use case that pkg_resource fails to support and it's the one place 
>that I've had to drop down to file system introspection.
>
>Think: the package-y flavor of 
>os.listdir(os.path.dirname(package.__file__))

FWIW, the Twisted spelling of this is:

from twisted.python.modules import getModule
getModule(__name__).filePath.parent().listdir()

(and yes, this works with zip files)