importlib_metadata: Library to access the metadata for a Python package

Description

importlib_metadata is a library to access the metadata for a Python package. It is intended to be ported to Python 3.8.

License

Apache Software License

Upstream Contact

Home page: http://importlib-metadata.readthedocs.io/

Type

standard

Dependencies

• $(PYTHON)

• zipp: A pathlib-compatible zipfile object wrapper

• typing_extensions: Backported and Experimental Type Hints for Python 3.5+

• $(PYTHON_TOOLCHAIN)

• tomli: A lil’ TOML parser

Version Information

package-version.txt:

5.1.0

install-requires.txt:

importlib_metadata >=1.7.0

Equivalent System Packages

conda:

$ conda install  importlib_metadata

void:

$ sudo xbps-install  python3-importlib_metadata

See https://repology.org/project/python:importlib-metadata/versions

However, these system packages will not be used for building Sage because using Python site-packages is not supported by the Sage distribution; see trac ticket #29023