setuptools._vendor.importlib_metadata.MetadataPathFinder

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class MetadataPathFinder(NullFinder, DistributionFinder): (source)

A degenerate finder for distribution packages on the file system. This finder supplies only a find_distributions() method for versions of Python that do not have a PathFinder find_distributions().

Method	`find_distributions`	Find distributions.
Method	`invalidate_caches`	Undocumented
Class Method	`_search_paths`	Find metadata directories in paths heuristically.

Inherited from NullFinder:

Static Method find_spec Undocumented

Inherited from DistributionFinder (via NullFinder):

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.

def find_distributions(self, context=DistributionFinder.Context()): (source) ¶

overrides setuptools._vendor.importlib_metadata.DistributionFinder.find_distributions

Find distributions. Return an iterable of all Distribution instances capable of loading the metadata for packages matching ``context.name`` (or all names if ``None`` indicated) along the paths in the list of directories ``context.path``.

def invalidate_caches(cls): (source) ¶

Undocumented

@classmethod
def _search_paths(cls, name, paths): (source) ¶

Find metadata directories in paths heuristically.