pkginfo 0.4.1

Query metadatdata from sdists / bdists / installed packages.

pkginfo README

This package provides an API for querying the distutils metadata written in the PKG-INFO file inside a source distriubtion (an sdist), or into the EGG-INFO directory of an installed distribution.

Please see http://packages.python.org/pkginfo/ for detailed documentation.

pkginfo Changelog

0.4.1 (2009-05-07)

• Fixed bugs in handling of installed packages which lack __file__ or PKG-INFO.

0.4 (2009-05-07)

• Extended the console script to allow output as CSV or INI. Also, added arguments to specify the metadata version and other parsing / output policies.

• Added support for the different metadata versions specified in PEPs 241, 314, and 345. Distributions now parse and expose only the attributes corresponding to their metadata version, which defaults to the version parsed from the PKG-INFO file. The programmer can override that version when creating the distribution object.

0.3 (2009-05-07)

• Added support for introspection of “development eggs” (checkouts with PKG-INFO, perhaps created via setup.py develop).

• Added a console script, pkginfo, which takes one or more paths on the command line and writes out the associated information. Thanks to runeh for the patch!

• Added ‘get_metadata’ helper function, which dispatches a given path or module across the available distribution types, and returns a distribution object. Thanks to runeh for the patch!

• Made distribution objects support iteration over the metadata fields. Thanks to runeh for the patch!

• Made Distribution and subclasses new-style classes. Thanks to runeh for the patch!

0.2 (2009-04-14)

• Added support for introspection of bdist_egg binary distributions.

0.1.1 (2009-04-10)

• Fixed packaging errors.

0.1 (2009-04-10)

• Initial release.