[Distutils] extending PKG-INFO .. or having a standard/library for reading setuptools' metadata

[P.J. Eby]

At 01:26 PM 7/20/2009 -0700, Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote:
>On Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:31:36 -0700, P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
>
>>discovery.resources -- basically pkg_resources under a different name
>
>It may also be worth adding support for parsing the files under .egg-info
>- for instance, those 'extras' in requires.txt.

See the 'requires()' method of Distribution objects:

http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PkgResources#distribution-methods