setuptools._vendor.importlib_metadata.DistributionFinder

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class DistributionFinder(MetaPathFinder): (source)

Known subclasses: setuptools._vendor.importlib_metadata.MetadataPathFinder

A MetaPathFinder capable of discovering installed distributions.

Class	`Context`	Keyword arguments presented by the caller to ``distributions()`` or ``Distribution.discover()`` to narrow the scope of a search for distributions in all DistributionFinders.
Method	`find_distributions`	Find distributions.

@abc.abstractmethod
def find_distributions(self, context=Context()): (source) ¶

overridden in setuptools._vendor.importlib_metadata.MetadataPathFinder

Find distributions. Return an iterable of all Distribution instances capable of loading the metadata for packages matching the ``context``, a DistributionFinder.Context instance.