Prefer stdlib importlib.metdata #508
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Please see #503 (comment). |
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hmm, interesting. |
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... What's the point of having a backport package if it exports a different API? Anyway, I'll just a make a note in our packaging about why |
It is backport of the API that will be present in Python 3.10. |
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Can we update https://pypi.org/project/importlib-metadata/ to also mention that the package also backports changes relevant to |
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@jaraco ☝️ can you do it? |
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Agreed. The readme is unclear. I filed python/importlib_metadata#306 to track. |
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Importlib_metadata is available as part of the standard library in python >= "3.8".
Noticed it was failing in NixOS/nixpkgs#119819 (comment)