[Distutils] Parsing setup()

[Ian Bicking]

Rob wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm writing a dependency resolver and I need to parse the setup() function
> in setup.py files and get all the packages in the "install_requires =
> [...]" list.
> 
> Reading setup.py and using regular expressions work ok but not 100% of
> the time because people pass a variable sometimes etc.
> 
> Any hints on how I can go about parsing the setup function?

If you have a built egg (which you can do with python setup.py egg_info, 
without actually installing anything) you can read the requires.txt file 
with pkg_resources.

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