Lennart Regebro <regebro <at> gmail.com> writes: >> IIUC, you're allowed to just define a module or package without the >> attributes appearing after the ":" > > Right, but isn't that then an entry point? >
How is it an entry point? Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what an entry point is, but to my mind it's the start of some code. Of course a module runs code when imported, but the module may already have been imported when the entry point is loaded - in which case, nothing would get run at load time, IIUC. Even if it wasn't imported before, I'm not sure whether you'd want to import a module just for side-effects caused by the import. > I agree REGISTRY is not a very good name in any case. Like I said, I only chose it because it's similar to other filenames in .dist-info, and I'll entertain alternative bikeshed colours ;-) I've added read_registry and write_registry methods to Distribution which take an optional filename; this allows reading from alternative filenames, which is handy for testing, at least. Regards, Vinay Sajip _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
