On 08/02/2010 05:25 PM, Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
python setup.py --long-description
Can someone tell me how to do that when I am in Python code already? Given the path to the checkout, can I use some setuptools/pkg_resources or pkginfo magic to get at this data?
Oh, this is where I always get scared because I always get lost. :) The pkg_resources documentation is here: http://packages.python.org/distribute/pkg_resources.html You can probably create a Distribution object somehow (handwave) from a path (whether that's the path of the package or the path the package is in, not sure). Then maybe 'get_metadata('long_description') on the distribution object, but maybe not as one seems to have to supply metadata when constructing a distribution.. But again, I always get lost here, perhaps you need an Environment or a WorkingSet first, etc. Regards, Martijn