importlib_metadata monkeypatches stdlib importlib breaking apis #300Description
import importlib.metadata
print(importlib.metadata.distribution('setuptools').entry_points[0])
__import__('importlib_metadata')
print(importlib.metadata.distribution('setuptools').entry_points[0])$ python3 t.py
EntryPoint(name='alias', value='setuptools.command.alias:alias', group='distutils.commands')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/tmp/y/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/importlib_metadata/__init__.py", line 224, in __getitem__
return next(iter(self.select(name=name)))
StopIteration
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "t.py", line 4, in <module>
print(importlib.metadata.distribution('setuptools').entry_points[0])
File "/tmp/y/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/importlib_metadata/__init__.py", line 226, in __getitem__
raise KeyError(name)
KeyError: 0