Thanks you PJ.... that is most helpful. Seems to be the answer I was looking for. :-)
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:17:07 -0400, "P.J. Eby" <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote: > At 11:19 PM 3/9/2009 -0400, David Lyon wrote: > >>What I want to do is use these in a list of installed packages. And then >>later provide for deinstallation. I'm thinking of parsing this file to > read >>all the package names.. >> >>My question is is there any way to do the same thing with setuptools? > > http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PkgResources#workingset-objects > > You can simply iterate over pkg_resources.working_set to obtain > Distribution objects for all eggs on sys.path -- that will give you > all *activated* packages (i.e., ones listed in .pth files or > otherwise explicitly on sys.path). > > If you want all *installed* packages (which may not be on sys.path, > but are still physically present in a directory on sys.path), you > want an Environment object instead: > > http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PkgResources#environment-objects > > And to remove a package from the .pth file, you can use "easy_install > -mxNd targetdir project==version" -- this will remove the named > project from the easy-install.pth file in targetdir. (The -m takes > it out, the -x means don't reinstall scripts, the -N means don't > install dependencies, and the -d targetdir specifies where the .pth file > is.) _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
