# `importlib.metadata` を使う

バージョン 3.8 で追加.

Source code: Lib/importlib/metadata.py

注釈

This functionality is provisional and may deviate from the usual version semantics of the standard library.

`importlib.metadata` is a library that provides for access to installed package metadata. 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` in Python 3.7 and newer (backported as importlib_resources for older versions of Python), this can eliminate the need to use the older and less efficient `pkg_resources` package.

By "installed package" we generally mean a third-party package installed into Python's `site-packages` directory via tools such as pip. Specifically, it means a package with either a discoverable `dist-info` or `egg-info` directory, and metadata defined by PEP 566 or its older specifications. By default, package metadata can live on the file system or in zip archives on `sys.path`. Through an extension mechanism, the metadata can live almost anywhere.

## 概要

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

    $ python3 -m venv example
    $ source example/bin/activate
    (example) $ pip install wheel

以下のように実行することで、`wheel` のバージョン文字列を取得することができます：

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

You can also get the set of entry points keyed by group, such as `console_scripts`, `distutils.commands` and others. Each group contains a sequence of EntryPoint objects.

ディストリビューションのメタデータ:: を取得することができます。

    >>> 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']

また、 配布物のバージョン番号 を取得し、 構成ファイル をリストアップし、配布物の 配布物の要件 のリストを取得することができます。

## 機能 API

本パッケージは、公開APIを通じて以下の機能を提供します。

### エントリポイント

The `entry_points()` function returns a dictionary of all entry points, keyed by group. Entry points are represented by `EntryPoint` instances; each `EntryPoint` has a `.name`, `.group`, and `.value` attributes and a `.load()` method to resolve the value.

    >>> eps = entry_points()
    >>> list(eps)
    ['console_scripts', 'distutils.commands', 'distutils.setup_keywords', 'egg_info.writers', 'setuptools.installation']
    >>> scripts = eps['console_scripts']
    >>> wheel = [ep for ep in scripts if ep.name == 'wheel'][0]
    >>> wheel
    EntryPoint(name='wheel', value='wheel.cli:main', group='console_scripts')
    >>> 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 entrypoints, their definition, and usage.

### 配布物メタデータ

Every distribution includes some metadata, which you can extract using the `metadata()` function:

    >>> wheel_metadata = metadata('wheel')

The keys of the returned data structure 1 name the metadata keywords, and their values are returned unparsed from the distribution metadata:

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

### 配布物バージョン

The `version()` function is the quickest way to get a distribution's version number, as a string:

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

### 配布物ファイル

You can also get the full set of files contained within a distribution. The `files()` function takes a distribution package name and returns all of the files installed by this distribution. Each file object returned is a `PackagePath`, a `pathlib.Path` derived object with additional `dist`, `size`, and `hash` properties as indicated by the metadata. 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>

ファイルを取得したら、その内容を読むこともできます:

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

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.

### 配布物の要件

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

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

## Distributions

While the above API is the most common and convenient usage, you can get all of that information from the `Distribution` class. A `Distribution` is an abstract object that represents the metadata for a Python package. You can get the `Distribution` instance:

    >>> from importlib.metadata import distribution
    >>> dist = distribution('wheel')

したがって、バージョン情報を取得する別の方法として、 `Distribution` インスタンスを使用します:

    >>> dist.version
    '0.32.3'

`Distribution` インスタンスには、あらゆる種類の追加メタデータが用意されています:

    >>> 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 PEP 566 for additional details.

## 検索アルゴリズムの拡張

Because package metadata is not available through `sys.path` searches, or package loaders directly, the metadata for a package 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`.

The default `PathFinder` for Python includes a hook that calls into `importlib.metadata.MetadataPathFinder` for finding distributions loaded from typical file-system-based paths.

抽象クラス `importlib.abc.MetaPathFinder` はPythonの importシステムによってファインダーに期待されるインターフェイスを定義しています。 `importlib.metadata` はこのプロトコルを拡張し、 `sys.meta_path` からファインダーにオプションの `find_distributions` を呼び出すことができるようにし、この拡張インターフェースを `DistributionFinder` 抽象基底クラスとして提示し、この抽象メソッドを定義しています:

    @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``.
        """

The `DistributionFinder.Context` object provides `.path` and `.name` properties indicating the path to search and names to match and may supply other relevant context.

つまり、ファイルシステム以外の場所にある配布パッケージのメタデータを見つけるには、 `Distribution` をサブクラス化して抽象メソッドを実装します。そして、カスタムファインダーから `find_distributions()` メソッドで、派生した `Distribution` のインスタンスを返します。

脚注

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  Technically, the returned distribution metadata object is an `email.message.EmailMessage` instance, but this is an implementation detail, and not part of the stable API. You should only use dictionary-like methods and syntax to access the metadata contents.