discover contents of a namespace package

Date	2013-12-24 12:57 +0100
From	Brecht Machiels <brecht@mos6581.org>
Subject	discover contents of a namespace package
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.4587.1387886261.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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Hello,

I'm trying to use namespace packages (as described by PEP 420) to manage optional components of my Python package.

I would like to discover which optional components are installed. Unfortunately, I have not found a straightforward way to do this. For regular packages, pkgutil.walk_packages() does this, but this doesn't work for namespace packages. Is there a way to discover the installed contents of a namespace package without manually reading the filesystem?

Is there a way to do this using namespace packages created using pkgutil or pkg_resources?

Thanks
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Brecht Machiels

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