That is consistent with my understanding of the setuptools API. It is
normal to call ensure_finalized.
On Tue, Mar 5, 2019, 11:40 <epeter...@interactivebrokers.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a use case where I would like to be able to discover the name that
> a wheel will be given without actually building the wheel first. So if I
> had a source directory like this:
>
> src/
> my_package/
> setup.py
>
> Here my_package is the Python package that I will be putting in my wheel
> and setup.py describes how to do that and the metadata associated with it.
>
> What we have discovered so far is that this recipe seems to do the trick:
>
> import distutils.core
> from wheel import bdist_wheel
>
> dist = distutils.core.run_setup('setup.py')
> bw = bdist_wheel.bdisdt_wheel(dist)
> bw.ensure_finalized()
> bw.get_archive_basename()
>
>
> The output of that last command is something like
> 'my_package-0.1-py2.py3-none-any', which is what I need (along with the
> ".whl" extension, of course).
>
> My concern is that it feels like we're using some private APIs here, e.g.,
> having to call ensure_finalized(). Is this the right way to be doing this?
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
