metadata_please

There are a couple of pretty decent ways to read metadata (importlib-metadata, and pkginfo) but they tend to be pretty heavyweight. This lib aims to do two things, with as minimal dependencies as possible:

1. Support just enough metadata to be able to look up deps.
2. Do "the thing that pip does" when deciding what dist-info dir to look at.

Version Compat

Usage of this library should work back to 3.7, but development (and mypy compatibility) only on 3.10-3.12. Linting requires 3.12 for full fidelity.

License

metadata_please is copyright Tim Hatch, and licensed under the MIT license. I am providing code in this repository to you under an open source license. This is my personal repository; the license you receive to my code is from me and not from my employer. See the LICENSE file for details.