Skip to main content

Read metadata from Python packages

Project description

https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/importlib_metadata.svg https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/importlib_metadata.svg tests Ruff https://readthedocs.org/projects/importlib-metadata/badge/?version=latest https://img.shields.io/badge/skeleton-2024-informational https://tidelift.com/badges/package/pypi/importlib-metadata

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

7.0

3.13

6.5

3.12

4.13

3.11

4.6

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

For Enterprise

Available as part of the Tidelift Subscription.

This project and the maintainers of thousands of other packages are working with Tidelift to deliver one enterprise subscription that covers all of the open source you use.

Learn more.

Project details


Release history Release notifications | RSS feed

Download files

Download the file for your platform. If you're not sure which to choose, learn more about installing packages.

Source Distribution

importlib_metadata-8.0.0.tar.gz (52.7 kB view hashes)

Uploaded Source

Built Distribution

importlib_metadata-8.0.0-py3-none-any.whl (24.8 kB view hashes)

Uploaded Python 3

Supported by

AWS AWS Cloud computing and Security Sponsor Datadog Datadog Monitoring Fastly Fastly CDN Google Google Download Analytics Microsoft Microsoft PSF Sponsor Pingdom Pingdom Monitoring Sentry Sentry Error logging StatusPage StatusPage Status page