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Library to access metadata for Python packages
https://importlib-metadata.readthedocs.io
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MetadataPathFinder has `find_distributions` as a classmethod in CPython #484

Closed jaraco closed 4 months ago

jaraco commented 4 months ago

Today I noticed that in CPython, the find_distributions is a classmethod:

https://github.com/python/importlib_metadata/blob/a573be960509669c8822ead4aef8b450877cc21b/Lib/importlib/metadata/__init__.py#L774-L777

But it's an instance method in importlib_metadata. I think it can be made a classmethod in both cases to reduce the divergence. I'd like to investigate to see if there was a reason for the divergence.

jaraco commented 4 months ago

It looks like the classmethod goes back to 83b48ec85f27b65b01969bfc453f30308ca9d138, suggesting the divergence happened as part of the integration effort with CPython, so probably could have been made a classmethod in importlib_metadata as well.