Read metadata from Python packages
Project description
Library to access the metadata for a Python package.
This package supplies third-party access to the functionality of importlib.metadata including improvements added to subsequent Python versions.
Compatibility
New features are introduced in this third-party library and later merged into CPython. The following table indicates which versions of this library were contributed to different versions in the standard library:
importlib_metadata |
stdlib |
---|---|
4.8 |
3.11 |
4.4 |
3.10 |
1.4 |
3.8 |
Usage
See the online documentation for usage details.
Finder authors can also add support for custom package installers. See the above documentation for details.
Caveats
This project primarily supports third-party packages installed by PyPA tools (or other conforming packages). It does not support:
Packages in the stdlib.
Packages installed without metadata.
Project details
Project home: https://github.com/python/importlib_metadata
Report bugs at: https://github.com/python/importlib_metadata/issues
Code hosting: https://github.com/python/importlib_metadata
Documentation: https://importlib_metadata.readthedocs.io/
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