At 11:25 PM 9/9/2009 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
That's one of the pain points of the current distutils capability: there's no standard-library way to extract that information.
If you're talking about setup.cfg (and all the other distutils .cfg files), all you need to do is create a Distribution object and call parse_config_files() on it, then access the appropriate attributes. Take you maybe 3 or 4 lines of code.
If you're talking about setup.py, all you need to do is use the distutils functions that allow you to run a setup.py without executing any of its commands. (Of course, you then need to be able to deal with badly-behaved setup scripts, and it's true there's no stdlib support for that.)
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