New submission from Ben <onlinespend...@gmail.com>:
When installing a package using --editable, pip creates a .egg-link file in your site-packages dir that points to the .egg-info metadata that by default exists along side the source that it was installed from. This worked just fine with the older pkg_resources package. However, the newer importlib.metadata does not seem to be aware of .egg-link files at all. The only solution is to include the source dir that contains the .egg-info metadata into your PYTHONPATH, which sort of defeats the purpose of having the .egg-link pointer in the first place. ---------- components: Distutils, Library (Lib) messages: 411262 nosy: dstufft, eric.araujo, onlinespending priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: importlib.metadata does not honor .egg-link files type: behavior versions: Python 3.10, Python 3.11, Python 3.7, Python 3.8, Python 3.9 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue46473> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
