[issue38594] importlib.metadata documentation deficiencies

Jason R. Coombs added the comment: I'm hoping those documentation edits address the deficiencies, but if not, we can take another stab at it. Feel free to re-open as needed. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed __

[issue38594] importlib.metadata documentation deficiencies

Jason R. Coombs added the comment: New changeset b738237d6792acba85b1f6e6c8993a812c7fd815 by Jason R. Coombs (Miss Islington (bot)) in branch '3.8': bpo-39022, bpo-38594: Sync with importlib_metadata 1.3 (GH-17568) (GH-17569) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b738237d6792acba85b1f6e6c8

[issue38594] importlib.metadata documentation deficiencies

Change by miss-islington : -- pull_requests: +17043 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/17569 ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue38594] importlib.metadata documentation deficiencies

Jason R. Coombs added the comment: New changeset b7a0109cd2bafaa21a4d50aad307e901c68f9156 by Jason R. Coombs in branch 'master': bpo-39022, bpo-38594: Sync with importlib_metadata 1.3 (GH-17568) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b7a0109cd2bafaa21a4d50aad307e901c68f9156 -- __

[issue38594] importlib.metadata documentation deficiencies

Change by Jason R. Coombs : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +17041 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/17568 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue38594] importlib.metadata documentation deficiencies

Jason R. Coombs added the comment: I've merged the recommended changes into importlib_metadata 1.3 and I'm including those changes in issue39022. -- ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue38594] importlib.metadata documentation deficiencies

Jason R. Coombs added the comment: Please have a look at https://gitlab.com/python-devs/importlib_metadata/merge_requests/104/diffs, which attempts to clarify the documentation to indicate how one would implement a custom finder. If you have a prototype implementation, I'd be happy to have a

[issue38594] importlib.metadata documentation deficiencies

Jason R. Coombs added the comment: Good suggestions. Thanks for taking the time to articulate in such a friendly way the shortcomings you encountered. I'm happy to help. In [this ticket](https://gitlab.com/python-devs/importlib_metadata/issues/105), I've mirrored this ticket in the backport

[issue38594] importlib.metadata documentation deficiencies

Change by Jason R. Coombs : -- assignee: docs@python -> jaraco ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe:

[issue38594] importlib.metadata documentation deficiencies

New submission from Gregory Szorc : As I was attempting to implement the find_distributions() interface for PyOxidizer, I got confused by importlib.metadata's documentation. The documentation for this module states: ``` What this means in practice is that to support finding distribution packa