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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

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:

importlib_metadatastdlib7.03.136.53.124.133.114.63.101.43.8Usage

See the

online documentation

for usage details.

Finder authors

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/

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