Here is how you can write setup_requires and test_requires to a file, by adding a plugin to egg_info.writers in setuptools.
https://gist.github.com/dholth/59e4c8a0c0d963b019d81e18bf0a89e3 On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 9:29 AM Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
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