Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: entrypoints
Version: 0.3
Summary: Discover and load entry points from installed packages.
Home-page: https://github.com/takluyver/entrypoints
License: UNKNOWN
Author: Thomas Kluyver
Author-email: thomas@kluyver.me.uk
Requires-Python: >=2.7
Description-Content-Type: text/x-rst
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Requires-Dist: configparser (>=3.5); python_version == '2.7'
Project-URL: Documentation, https://entrypoints.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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Entry points are a way for Python packages to advertise objects with some
common interface. The most common examples are ``console_scripts`` entry points,
which define shell commands by identifying a Python function to run.

*Groups* of entry points, such as ``console_scripts``, point to objects with
similar interfaces. An application might use a group to find its plugins, or
multiple groups if it has different kinds of plugins.

The **entrypoints** module contains functions to find and load entry points.
You can install it from PyPI with ``pip install entrypoints``.

To advertise entry points when distributing a package, see
`entry_points in the Python Packaging User Guide
<https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/distributing.html#entry-points>`_.