On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Iwan Vosloo <i...@reahl.org> wrote: > On 02/07/2013 17:08, PJ Eby wrote: >> >> If you are targeting at least Python 2.5, see: >> http://docs.python.org/2/library/pkgutil.html#pkgutil.walk_packages > > > We're targeting Python 2.7. > > Trouble is that pkgutil.walk_packages needs a path to search from. > Distribution.location is always your site-packages directory once a > Distribution is installed, so walking that just gives ALL installed > packages. If your Distribution contains some sort of main package that > contains everything in it, you can use that package's .__path__, but then > you'd need to discover what that package is. > > Distributions could also contain more than one package next to each other, > and top-level modules. (The __path__ of a top-level module is also simply > the site-packages directory.) > > There is a metadata file top_level.txt which one could use to get the names > of top-level packages/modules in the Distribution. This can however contain > a namespace package too - and you don't want all the packages inside the > namespace package - just the bits inside the chosen Distribution...
Ah, well in that case you'll have to inspect either .egg-info/SOURCES.txt or the PEP 376 installation manifest. I don't know of any reliable way to do what you want for system-installed packages at the moment. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
