On 2 November 2017 at 18:46, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: > But unfortuately this hasn't been standardized, and there's currently > no way to do the lookup from the stdlib, so maybe this is not so > helpful for IDLE... >
The entry point file format was recently promoted to a PyPA interoperability spec (without a PEP, as we documented it as-is, rather than changing anything): https://packaging.python.org/specifications/entry-points/ While the point about the standard library lacking the ability to read the metadata for installed packages still stands, it's also not too hard to implement a rudimentary version that just iterates over sys.path looking for `entry_points.txt` files in `*.dist-info` subdirectories. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia
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