Library to access the metadata for a Python package.

This package supplies third-party access to the functionality of importlib.metadata including improvements added to subsequent Python versions.

New features are introduced in this third-party library and later merged into CPython. The following table indicates which versions of this library were contributed to different versions in the standard library:

See the online documentation for usage details.

Finder authors can also add support for custom package installers. See the above documentation for details.

This project primarily supports third-party packages installed by PyPA tools (or other conforming packages). It does not support:

• Packages in the stdlib.
• Packages installed without metadata.

• Project home: https://github.com/python/importlib_metadata
• Report bugs at: https://github.com/python/importlib_metadata/issues
• Code hosting: https://github.com/python/importlib_metadata
• Documentation: https://importlib_metadata.readthedocs.io/