entrypoints API

High-level API

entrypoints.get_single(group, name, path=None)

Find a single entry point.

Returns an EntryPoint object, or raises NoSuchEntryPoint if no match is found.

entrypoints.get_group_named(group, path=None)

Find a group of entry points with unique names.

Returns a dictionary of names to EntryPoint objects.

entrypoints.get_group_all(group, path=None)

Find all entry points in a group.

Returns a list of EntryPoint objects.

These functions will all use sys.path by default if you don’t specify the path parameter. This is normally what you want, so you shouldn’t need to pass path.

EntryPoint objects

class entrypoints.EntryPoint(name, module_name, object_name, extras=None, distro=None)

name

The name identifying this entry point

module_name

The name of an importable module to which it refers

object_name

The dotted object name within the module, or None if the entry point refers to a module itself.

extras

Extra setuptools features related to this entry point as a list, or None

distro

The distribution which advertised this entry point - a Distribution instance or None

load()

Load the object to which this entry point refers.

classmethod from_string(epstr, name, distro=None)

Parse an entry point from the syntax in entry_points.txt

Parameters:

• epstr (str) – The entry point string (not including ‘name =’)
• name (str) – The name of this entry point
• distro (Distribution) – The distribution in which the entry point was found

Return type:

EntryPoint

Raises BadEntryPoint:  

if epstr can’t be parsed as an entry point.

class entrypoints.Distribution(name, version)

name

The name of this distribution

version

The version of this distribution, as a string

Exceptions

exception entrypoints.BadEntryPoint(epstr)

Raised when an entry point can’t be parsed.

exception entrypoints.NoSuchEntryPoint(group, name)

Raised by get_single() when no matching entry point is found.