-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chris Withers wrote: > Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote: >>> I may be missing some context, but I did about an hour of googling around >>> before responding here, and for the life of me I can't find a simple >>> answer >>> to the question: how do I currently programatically get the metadata >>> out of >>> a distribution? >> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pkginfo/ > > Yeah, but you have to remember to sacrifice the right goats to end up > with the right things in whatever files pkginfo uses :-(
You bothering the goats again, Chris? ;) pkginfo uses the standard information generated by the 'sdist', 'develop' and 'bdist_egg' commenads, and can even introspect installed packages on Python 2.6.x. It is documented here: http://packages.python.org/pkginfo/ Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFKs+b9+gerLs4ltQ4RApBrAKCvmK97Xd1rdrrDVgPkiDWhHA1bzACfTlHh I9kbSb19HRCfXyaQJ4RaSSE= =HNfh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
