On 3 June 2016 at 14:24, Christopher Baines <m...@cbaines.net> wrote: > On 03/06/16 14:19, Paul Moore wrote: >> On 3 June 2016 at 13:20, Christopher Baines <m...@cbaines.net> wrote: >>> I'm trying to write a script to get information about a source >>> distributions requirements (from the source distribution), but I'm not >>> sure how to access the tests_require and setup_requires that can >>> sometimes be found in the setup.py? >>> >>> Apologies if this is really simple, and I've just missed the answer, but >>> I've searched for it a few times now, and not come up with anything. >> >> If I understand what you're trying to achieve, the only way of getting >> the "final" information (i.e, what will actually get used to install) >> is by running the setup.py script. That's basically the key issue with >> the executable setup.py format - there's no way to know the >> information without running the script. >> >> You may be able to get the information without doing a full install by >> using the "setup.py egg_info" subcommand provided by setuptools. >> That's what pip uses, for example (but pip doesn't look at >> tests_require or setup_requires, so you'd have to check if that >> information was available by that route). > > As far as I can see (I checked setuptools and flake8), neither > tests_require or setup_requires are present in the egg_info metadata > directory. > > Is there no way of getting setuptools to write the data out to a file?
Maybe you could write your own command class? Or monkeypatch setuptools.setup() to write its arguments to a file? I don't know of any non-ugly way, though, sorry... Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig