entry-points-txt 0.1.0

Read & write entry_points.txt files

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entry-points-txt provides functions for reading & writing entry_points.txt files according to the spec. That is the one thing it does, and it endeavors to do it well.

Installation

entry-points-txt requires Python 3.6 or higher. Just use pip for Python 3 (You have pip, right?) to install entry-points-txt:

python3 -m pip install entry-points-txt

API

EntryPoint

class EntryPoint(NamedTuple)

A representation of an entry point as a namedtuple. Instances have the following attributes and methods:

group: str

The name of the entry point group (e.g., "console_scripts")

name: str

The name of the entry point

module: str

The module portion of the object reference (the part before the colon)

object: Optional[str]

The object/attribute portion of the object reference (the part after the colon), or None if not specified

extras: Tuple[str, ...]

Extras required for the entry point

load() -> Any

Returns the object referred to by the entry point’s object reference

to_line() -> str

Returns the representation of the entry point as a line in entry_points.txt, i.e., a line of the form name = module:object [extras]

load()

entry_points_txt.load(fp: IO[str]) -> Dict[str, Dict[str, EntryPoint]]

Parse a file-like object as an entry_points.txt-format file and return the results. The parsed entry points are returned in a dict mapping each group name to a dict mapping each entry point name to an EntryPoint object.

For example, the following input:

[console_scripts]
foo = package.__main__:main
bar = package.cli:klass.attr

[thingy.extension]
quux = package.thingy [xtr]

would be parsed as:

{
    "console_scripts": {
        "foo": EntryPoint(group="console_scripts", name="foo", module="package.__main__", object="main", extras=()),
        "bar": EntryPoint(group="console_scripts", name="bar", module="package.cli", object="klass.attr", extras=()),
    },
    "thingy.extension": {
        "quux": EntryPoint(group="thingy.extension", name="quux", module="package.thingy", object=None, extras=("xtr",)),
    },
}

loads()

entry_points_txt.loads(s: str) -> Dict[str, Dict[str, EntryPoint]]

Like load(), but reads from a string instead of a filehandle

dump()

entry_points_txt.dump(eps: Dict[str, Dict[str, EntryPoint]], fp: IO[str]) -> None

Write a collection of entry points (in the same structure as returned by load()) to a file-like object in entry_points.txt format. A ValueError is raised and nothing is written if the group or name key under which an EntryPoint is located does not match its group or name attribute.

dumps()

entry_points_txt.dumps(eps: Dict[str, Dict[str, EntryPoint]]) -> str

Like dump(), but returns a string instead of writing to a filehandle

dump_list()

entry_points_txt.dump_list(eps: Iterable[EntryPoint], fp: IO[str]) -> None

Write an iterable of entry points to a file-like object in entry_points.txt format. If two or more entry points have the same group & name, only the last one will be output.

dumps_list()

entry_points_txt.dumps_list(eps: Iterable[EntryPoint]) -> str

Like dump_list(), but returns a string instead of writing to a filehandle

ParseError

class ParseError(ValueError)

Exception raised by load() or loads() when given invalid input