At 11:32 PM 8/19/2010 +0100, Chris Withers wrote:
P.J. Eby wrote:
I'm trying to write a scanner than looks for SQLAlchemy table
objects and it would be great to be able to pass a distribution
name rather than a set of dotted package names...
get_distribution('projectname').get_metadata('top_level.txt').splitlines()
will return you a list of top-level package or module names
provided by the package.
Ah, okay. I assume this will only work for packages that use setuptools?
Or distribute. Or pip (I assume). Anything but plain distutils, basically.
I assume this is only a problem for namespace packages?
(ie: if so packages each supply part of a namespace, they will both
have the namespace listed in top_level.txt, right?)
Correct.
How do static resources returned with
pkg_resources.resource_filename and friends fare when packages are
installed in a "flat" form?
They go in the same relative location as they would in an egg, it's
just that in flat layouts everyone's files are in the same namespace.
Sort of a "scrambled egg", if you will. ;-)
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