Library to access the metadata for a Python package.
This package supplies third-party access to the functionality of importlib.metadata including improvements added to subsequent Python versions.
新建 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:
| importlib_metadata | stdlib |
|---|---|
| 7.0 | 3.13 |
| 6.5 | 3.12 |
| 4.13 | 3.11 |
| 4.6 | 3.10 |
| 1.4 | 3.8 |
See the online documentation for usage details.
Finder authors can also add support for custom package installers. See the above documentation for details.
This project primarily supports third-party packages installed by PyPA tools (or other conforming packages). It does not support:
- 包 in the stdlib.
- 包 installed without metadata.
- 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/
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