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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>
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including improvements added to subsequent Python versions.
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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See the online documentation <https://importlib-metadata.readthedocs.io/>
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for usage details.
Finder authors <https://docs.python.org/3/reference/import.html#finders-and-loaders>
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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:
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We found that importlib-metadata demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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