[Distutils] RFC : PEP 376 - egg.info

David Lyon david.lyon at preisshare.net
Thu Apr 30 16:34:14 CEST 2009


Hi Tarek,

On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:50:19 +0200, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> But during package installation, this information will be written
>> into a .PTH file somewhere along the python path...
> 
> No, you just have a list of relative paths to installed package there
> that's it.

It means the same thing.

> You don't even know what packages were installed for your project
> unless you digg into the source distribution.

Yes I do...

I have the following code:

--code-------

import pkg_resources

ws = pkg_resources.WorkingSet()

for i in ws:
    s = str(i)
    print s

--end code---

That tells me what packages I have...

> For example, if a project installs two packages in your Python, how do
> you know it ?

The above code will tell me...

both packages will appear in the list.

David




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