On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 1:55 PM, Thomas Kluyver <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a tool that does this from a wheel: > https://github.com/takluyver/wheeldex > > From an sdist, I think you need to either build a wheel or install it > before you can get this information reliably. > Src: https://code.launchpad.net/~tseaver/pkginfo/trunk PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pkginfo This package provides an API for querying the distutils metadata written in > the PKG-INFO file inside a source distriubtion (an sdist) or a binary > distribution (e.g., created by running bdist_egg). It can also query the > EGG-INFO directory of an installed distribution, and the *.egg-info stored > in a “development checkout” (e.g, created by running setup.py develop). > Docs: https://pythonhosted.org/pkginfo/ https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~tseaver/pkginfo/trunk/files/head:/pkginfo/tests/ > Some of my installed packages have a 'top_level.txt' file in the > .dist-info folder, containing a list of the top-level package names > installed by that distribution. I don't believe this is formally > specified anywhere, though, and packages created by flit do not have it. > > Thomas > > On Wed, Mar 29, 2017, at 07:41 PM, Chris Jerdonek wrote: > > Hi, this seems like a simple question, but I haven't been able to find > > the answer online: > > > > What is the current recommended way to get (1) the name of a project, > > and (2) the names of the top-level packages installed by a project > > (not counting the project's dependencies). You have access to / can > > run the project's setup.py, and you're also allowed to assume that the > > project is installed. > > > > For example, for (1) I know you can do-- > > > > $ python setup.py --name > > > > But I'm not sure if accessing setup.py is no longer recommended (as > > opposed to going through a tool like pip). > > > > Thanks a lot, > > --Chris > > _______________________________________________ > > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >
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