[Distutils] pkg_resources API use according to Nullege search engine

Vinay Sajip vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Oct 2 22:20:48 CEST 2012


PJ Eby <pje <at> telecommunity.com> writes:


> Btw, I think you might be missing part of the point of
> resource_filename() - it's not just that there are APIs (and external
> programs) that need real filenames, but that there are also C APIs
> that operate on OS-level file handles, so just having the bytes or a
> Python stream isn't sufficient.

I think I was missing it - thanks to all of you who chipped in to  clarify it
for me.

Regards,

Vinay Sajip



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