From: Jason R. Coombs Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 23:36:06 +0000 (-0400) Subject: bpo-44246: Update What's New for importlib.metadata. (#26408) X-Git-Tag: v3.11.0a1~1006 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=28f12c9f4f39d283d823d81e311d863526dfdb54;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git bpo-44246: Update What's New for importlib.metadata. (#26408) * bpo-44246: Update What's New for importlib.metadata. Bump version of importlib_metadata included. Add note about compatibility notice and fix link to entry_points documentation. Add note about removal of access by index on Distribution.entry_points. * Fix syntax mistake in issue reference. Co-authored-by: Ken Jin <28750310+Fidget-Spinner@users.noreply.github.com> * Fix broken reference in entry-points. Co-authored-by: Ken Jin <28750310+Fidget-Spinner@users.noreply.github.com> --- diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst index 581db4f340cf..8b6637b44745 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst @@ -1039,11 +1039,17 @@ and will be incorrect in some rare cases, including some ``_``-s in importlib.metadata ------------------ -Feature parity with ``importlib_metadata`` 3.7. +Feature parity with ``importlib_metadata`` 4.2 +(`history `_). -:func:`importlib.metadata.entry_points` now provides a nicer experience +:ref:`importlib.metadata entry points ` +now provides a nicer experience for selecting entry points by group and name through a new -:class:`importlib.metadata.EntryPoints` class. +:class:`importlib.metadata.EntryPoints` class. See the Compatibility +Note in the docs for more info on the deprecation and usage. +Incidentally, these changes also removed access by index on the +result of :func:`importlib.metadata.Distribution.entry_points` +(see :issue:`44246` for more detail). Added :func:`importlib.metadata.packages_distributions` for resolving top-level Python modules and packages to their