How to read PKG-INFO metadata off a Python .egg distribution
It’s obvious when you see it but somehow I’ve just spent an hour on figuring out how to read a PKG-INFO metadata file off a Python .egg distribution, so here it is in case someone needs it some day 
# stdlib import zipimport # Distribute import pkg_resources egg_file = "/path/to/a/distribution-1.0-py2.6.egg" dist = pkg_resources.Distribution.from_filename(egg_file, metadata=pkg_resources.EggMetadata(zipimport.zipimporter(egg_file))) # pkg_info will now be equal to the contents of a PKG-INFO metadata file pkg_info = dist.get_metadata("PKG-INFO")
