importlib.metadata – Acceso a los metadatos de los paquetes

Added in version 3.8.

Distinto en la versión 3.10: importlib.metadata ya no es provisional.

Source code: Lib/importlib/metadata/__init__.py

importlib.metadata is a library that provides access to the metadata of an installed Distribution Package, such as its entry points or its top-level names (Import Packages, modules, if any). Built in part on Python’s import system, this library intends to replace similar functionality in the entry point API and metadata API of pkg_resources. Along with importlib.resources, this package can eliminate the need to use the older and less efficient pkg_resources package.

importlib.metadata operates on third-party distribution packages installed into Python’s site-packages directory via tools such as pip. Specifically, it works with distributions with discoverable dist-info or egg-info directories, and metadata defined by the Core metadata specifications.

Importante

Estos no son necesariamente equivalentes o se corresponden 1:1 con los nombres de paquetes de importación de nivel superior que pueden ser importados dentro del código Python. Un paquete de distribución puede contener múltiples paquetes de importación (y módulos individuales), y un paquete de importación de nivel superior puede corresponder a múltiples paquetes de distribución si es un paquete de espacio de nombres. Puede usar package_distributions() para obtener un mapeo entre ellos.

Por defecto, los metadatos de distribución pueden vivir en el sistema de ficheros o en archivos zip en sys.path. A través de un mecanismo de extensión, los metadatos pueden vivir casi en cualquier lugar.

Ver también

https://importlib-metadata.readthedocs.io/

La documentación de importlib_metadata, que proporciona un backport de importlib.metadata. Esto incluye una Referencia API para las clases y funciones de este módulo, así como una Guía de migración para los usuarios existentes de pkg_resources.

Descripción general

Let’s say you wanted to get the version string for a Distribution Package you’ve installed using pip. We start by creating a virtual environment and installing something into it:

$ python -m venv example
$ source example/bin/activate
(example) $ python -m pip install wheel

Se puede obtener la cadena de versión para wheel ejecutando lo siguiente:

(example) $ python
>>> from importlib.metadata import version  
>>> version('wheel')  
'0.32.3'

You can also get a collection of entry points selectable by properties of the EntryPoint (typically “group” or “name”), such as console_scripts, distutils.commands and others. Each group contains a collection of EntryPoint objects.

Se pueden obtener los metadatos para una distribución:

>>> list(metadata('wheel'))  
['Metadata-Version', 'Name', 'Version', 'Summary', 'Home-page', 'Author', 'Author-email', 'Maintainer', 'Maintainer-email', 'License', 'Project-URL', 'Project-URL', 'Project-URL', 'Keywords', 'Platform', 'Classifier', 'Classifier', 'Classifier', 'Classifier', 'Classifier', 'Classifier', 'Classifier', 'Classifier', 'Classifier', 'Classifier', 'Classifier', 'Classifier', 'Requires-Python', 'Provides-Extra', 'Requires-Dist', 'Requires-Dist']

También se puede obtener el número de versión de una distribución, enumerar sus archivos constituyentes y obtener una lista de los Requerimientos de la distribución de la distribución.

exception importlib.metadata.PackageNotFoundError

Subclass of ModuleNotFoundError raised by several functions in this module when queried for a distribution package which is not installed in the current Python environment.

API funcional

Este paquete provee la siguiente funcionalidad a través de su API pública.

Puntos de entrada

importlib.metadata.entry_points(**select_params)

Returns a EntryPoints instance describing entry points for the current environment. Any given keyword parameters are passed to the select() method for comparison to the attributes of the individual entry point definitions.

Note: it is not currently possible to query for entry points based on their EntryPoint.dist attribute (as different Distribution instances do not currently compare equal, even if they have the same attributes)

class importlib.metadata.EntryPoints

Details of a collection of installed entry points.

Also provides a .groups attribute that reports all identifed entry point groups, and a .names attribute that reports all identified entry point names.

class importlib.metadata.EntryPoint

Details of an installed entry point.

Each EntryPoint instance has .name, .group, and .value attributes and a .load() method to resolve the value. There are also .module, .attr, and .extras attributes for getting the components of the .value attribute, and .dist for obtaining information regarding the distribution package that provides the entry point.

Consultar todos los puntos de entrada:

>>> eps = entry_points()  

The entry_points() function returns a EntryPoints object, a collection of all EntryPoint objects with names and groups attributes for convenience:

>>> sorted(eps.groups)  
['console_scripts', 'distutils.commands', 'distutils.setup_keywords', 'egg_info.writers', 'setuptools.installation']

EntryPoints has a select() method to select entry points matching specific properties. Select entry points in the console_scripts group:

>>> scripts = eps.select(group='console_scripts')  

Equivalently, since entry_points() passes keyword arguments through to select:

>>> scripts = entry_points(group='console_scripts')  

Elige un script específico llamado «wheel» (que se encuentra en el proyecto wheel):

>>> 'wheel' in scripts.names  
True
>>> wheel = scripts['wheel']  

De manera equivalente, consulta por ese punto de entrada durante la selección:

>>> (wheel,) = entry_points(group='console_scripts', name='wheel')  
>>> (wheel,) = entry_points().select(group='console_scripts', name='wheel')  

Inspeccionar el punto de entrada resuelto:

>>> wheel  
EntryPoint(name='wheel', value='wheel.cli:main', group='console_scripts')
>>> wheel.module  
'wheel.cli'
>>> wheel.attr  
'main'
>>> wheel.extras  
[]
>>> main = wheel.load()  
>>> main  
<function main at 0x103528488>

The group and name are arbitrary values defined by the package author and usually a client will wish to resolve all entry points for a particular group. Read the setuptools docs for more information on entry points, their definition, and usage.

Nota de compatibilidad

The «selectable» entry points were introduced in importlib_metadata 3.6 and Python 3.10. Prior to those changes, entry_points accepted no parameters and always returned a dictionary of entry points, keyed by group. With importlib_metadata 5.0 and Python 3.12, entry_points always returns an EntryPoints object. See backports.entry_points_selectable for compatibility options.

Metadatos de distribución

importlib.metadata.metadata(distribution_name)

Return the distribution metadata corresponding to the named distribution package as a PackageMetadata instance.

Raises PackageNotFoundError if the named distribution package is not installed in the current Python environment.

class importlib.metadata.PackageMetadata

A concrete implementation of the PackageMetadata protocol.

In addition to providing the defined protocol methods and attributes, subscripting the instance is equivalent to calling the get() method.

Every Distribution Package includes some metadata, which you can extract using the metadata() function:

>>> wheel_metadata = metadata('wheel')  

The keys of the returned data structure name the metadata keywords, and the values are returned unparsed from the distribution metadata:

>>> wheel_metadata['Requires-Python']  
'>=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*'

PackageMetadata also presents a json attribute that returns all the metadata in a JSON-compatible form per PEP 566:

>>> wheel_metadata.json['requires_python']
'>=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*'

The full set of available metadata is not described here. See the PyPA Core metadata specification for additional details.

Distinto en la versión 3.10: La Descripción ahora se incluye en los metadatos cuando se presenta a través de la carga útil. Se han eliminado los caracteres de continuación de línea.

El atributo json fue añadido.

Versiones de distribución

importlib.metadata.version(distribution_name)

Return the installed distribution package version for the named distribution package.

Raises PackageNotFoundError if the named distribution package is not installed in the current Python environment.

The version() function is the quickest way to get a Distribution Package’s version number, as a string:

>>> version('wheel')  
'0.32.3'

Archivos de distribución

importlib.metadata.files(distribution_name)

Return the full set of files contained within the named distribution package.

Raises PackageNotFoundError if the named distribution package is not installed in the current Python environment.

Returns None if the distribution is found but the installation database records reporting the files associated with the distribuion package are missing.

class importlib.metadata.PackagePath

A pathlib.PurePath derived object with additional dist, size, and hash properties corresponding to the distribution package’s installation metadata for that file.

The files() function takes a Distribution Package name and returns all of the files installed by this distribution. Each file is reported as a PackagePath instance. For example:

>>> util = [p for p in files('wheel') if 'util.py' in str(p)][0]  
>>> util  
PackagePath('wheel/util.py')
>>> util.size  
859
>>> util.dist  
<importlib.metadata._hooks.PathDistribution object at 0x101e0cef0>
>>> util.hash  
<FileHash mode: sha256 value: bYkw5oMccfazVCoYQwKkkemoVyMAFoR34mmKBx8R1NI>

Una vez que se tiene el archivo, también se puede leer su contenido:

>>> print(util.read_text())  
import base64
import sys
...
def as_bytes(s):
    if isinstance(s, text_type):
        return s.encode('utf-8')
    return s

You can also use the locate() method to get the absolute path to the file:

>>> util.locate()  
PosixPath('/home/gustav/example/lib/site-packages/wheel/util.py')

In the case where the metadata file listing files (RECORD or SOURCES.txt) is missing, files() will return None. The caller may wish to wrap calls to files() in always_iterable or otherwise guard against this condition if the target distribution is not known to have the metadata present.

Requerimientos de la distribución

importlib.metadata.requires(distribution_name)

Return the declared dependency specifiers for the named distribution package.

Raises PackageNotFoundError if the named distribution package is not installed in the current Python environment.

To get the full set of requirements for a Distribution Package, use the requires() function:

>>> requires('wheel')  
["pytest (>=3.0.0) ; extra == 'test'", "pytest-cov ; extra == 'test'"]

Mapeo de paquetes de importación a distribución

importlib.metadata.packages_distributions()

Return a mapping from the top level module and import package names found via sys.meta_path to the names of the distribution packages (if any) that provide the corresponding files.

To allow for namespace packages (which may have members provided by multiple distribution packages), each top level import name maps to a list of distribution names rather than mapping directly to a single name.

Un método práctico para resolver el nombre del Paquete de distribución (o nombres, en el caso de un paquete de espacio de nombres) que proporciona cada módulo Python de nivel superior importable o Paquete de importación:

>>> packages_distributions()
{'importlib_metadata': ['importlib-metadata'], 'yaml': ['PyYAML'], 'jaraco': ['jaraco.classes', 'jaraco.functools'], ...}

Algunas instalaciones editables, no suministran nombres de nivel superior, por lo que esta función no es fiable con dichas instalaciones.

Added in version 3.10.

Distribuciones

importlib.metadata.distribution(distribution_name)

Return a Distribution instance describing the named distribution package.

Raises PackageNotFoundError if the named distribution package is not installed in the current Python environment.

class importlib.metadata.Distribution

Details of an installed distribution package.

Note: different Distribution instances do not currently compare equal, even if they relate to the same installed distribution and accordingly have the same attributes.

While the module level API described above is the most common and convenient usage, you can get all of that information from the Distribution class. Distribution is an abstract object that represents the metadata for a Python Distribution Package. You can get the concreate Distribution subclass instance for an installed distribution package by calling the distribution() function:

>>> from importlib.metadata import distribution  
>>> dist = distribution('wheel')  
>>> type(dist)  
<class 'importlib.metadata.PathDistribution'>

Thus, an alternative way to get the version number is through the Distribution instance:

>>> dist.version  
'0.32.3'

There are all kinds of additional metadata available on Distribution instances:

>>> dist.metadata['Requires-Python']  
'>=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*'
>>> dist.metadata['License']  
'MIT'

The full set of available metadata is not described here. See the PyPA Core metadata specification for additional details.

Distribution Discovery

Por defecto, este paquete proporciona soporte incorporado para el descubrimiento de metadatos para el sistema de archivos y archivos zip Distribution Packages. Este buscador de metadatos busca por defecto sys.path, pero varía ligeramente en cómo interpreta esos valores respecto a cómo lo hace otra maquinaria de importación. En particular:

  • importlib.metadata does not honor bytes objects on sys.path.

  • importlib.metadata respetará incidentalmente los objetos pathlib.Path` en sys.path aunque tales valores serán ignorados para las importaciones.

Extendiendo el algoritmo de búsqueda

Because Distribution Package metadata is not available through sys.path searches, or package loaders directly, the metadata for a distribution is found through import system finders. To find a distribution package’s metadata, importlib.metadata queries the list of meta path finders on sys.meta_path.

Por defecto importlib.metadata instala un buscador de paquetes de distribución encontrados en el sistema de ficheros. Este buscador en realidad no encuentra ninguna distribución, pero puede encontrar sus metadatos.

La clase abstracta importlib.abc.MetaPathFinder define la interfaz que se espera de los buscadores por el sistema de importación de Python. importlib.metadata amplía este protocolo buscando una find_distributions opcional invocable en los buscadores desde sys.meta_path y presenta esta interfaz extendida como la clase base abstracta DistributionFinder, que define este método abstracto:

@abc.abstractmethod
def find_distributions(context=DistributionFinder.Context()):
    """Return an iterable of all Distribution instances capable of
    loading the metadata for packages for the indicated ``context``.
    """

El objeto DistributionFinder.Context proporciona propiedades .path y .name que indican la ruta de búsqueda y los nombres que deben coincidir y puede proporcionar otro contexto relevante.

Lo que esto significa en la práctica es que, para soportar la búsqueda de metadatos en paquetes de distribución en ubicaciones distintas al sistema de archivos, se debe subclasificar Distribution e implementar sus métodos abstractos. Luego, en el método find_distributions() de un buscador personalizado no hay más que retornar instancias de esta Distribution derivada.