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Library to access the metadata for a Python package.

This package supplies third-party access to the functionality of importlib.metadata <https://docs.python.org/3/library/importlib.metadata.html>_ including improvements added to subsequent Python versions.

Compatibility

New 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:

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• - importlib_metadata
  • stdlib
• - 4.4
  • 3.10
• - 1.4
  • 3.8

Usage

See the online documentation <https://importlib_metadata.readthedocs.io/>_ for usage details.

Finder authors <https://docs.python.org/3/reference/import.html#finders-and-loaders>_ can also add support for custom package installers. See the above documentation for details.

Caveats

This project primarily supports third-party packages installed by PyPA tools (or other conforming packages). It does not support:

• Packages in the stdlib.
• Packages installed without metadata.

Project details

• 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/