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Library to access the metadata for a Python package.

This package supplies third-party access to the functionality ofimportlib.metadataincluding improvements added to subsequent Python versions.

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

See theonline documentationfor usage details.

Finder authors canalso add support for custom package installers. See the above documentationfor details.

This project primarily supports third-party packages installed by PyPAtools (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/