importlib-metadata (4.12.0)
Installation
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Read metadata from Python packages
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Library to access the metadata for a Python package.
This package supplies third-party access to the functionality of
importlib.metadata <https://docs.python.org/3/library/importlib.metadata.html>_
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:
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- importlib_metadata
- stdlib
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- 4.8
- 3.11
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- 4.4
- 3.10
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- 1.4
- 3.8
Usage
See the online documentation <https://importlib_metadata.readthedocs.io/>_
for usage details.
Finder authors <https://docs.python.org/3/reference/import.html#finders-and-loaders>_ 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/