Jason R. Coombs

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You're right. `importlib.import_module` and `importlib.metadata` deal with two largely separate concerns. The former deals with Python modules/packages and their contents. The latter deals with metadata sitting alongside Python modules/packages. The...

It's not at all obvious to me what sort of consistency check would even be possible. Thinking about the scenario you've described, here's one way it could _maybe_ be done:...

@rgommers I'm keenly interested in your take on my latest proposal.

Right. Support for hosting docs on pythonhosted.org (PyPI) was removed years ago. I recommend to [destroy the docs](https://stackoverflow.com/a/41856147).

Sounds like a solution to me. Thanks!

I'd very much like to see this feature implemented, and I'd like to share some inspiration. In [jaraco.functools](http://jaracofunctools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#jaraco.functools.retry_call), I implement `retry_call` without implicit sleep or logging behavior, but instead using...

`pkg_resources` is known to do some unfriendly things when it comes to dependency resolution, especially if there are gaps in the dependency tree. Here's the error I encountered when trying...

> It seems the developers didn't configure the package correctly. I don't believe this is the issue. I suspect one can replicate the issue by installing some package (with dependencies),...

I thought I'd tested zsh, but I see now I didn't (zsh was inheriting the path from the parent shell). Thankfully, xonsh seems to do the right thing, presumably inheriting...

I saw [this answer](https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/117470/275034) that purports that `.profile` works on many shells not zshell, but in my testing, that did not work for me under bash (maybe the presence of...