Method _metainfo

pipcl.py:1443–1514

Returns text for `.egg-info/PKG-INFO` file, or `PKG-INFO` in an sdist `.tar.gz` file, or `...dist-info/METADATA` in a wheel.

(self)

        return f'{_normalise2(self.name)}-{self.version}.dist-info'

    def _metainfo(self):
        '''
        Returns text for `.egg-info/PKG-INFO` file, or `PKG-INFO` in an sdist
        `.tar.gz` file, or `...dist-info/METADATA` in a wheel.
        '''
        # 2021-04-30: Have been unable to get multiline content working on
        # test.pypi.org so we currently put the description as the body after
        # all the other headers.
        #
        ret = ['']
        def add(key, value):
            if value is None:
                return
            if isinstance( value, (tuple, list)):
                for v in value:
                    if v is not None:
                        add( key, v)
                return
            if key == 'License' and '\n' in value:
                # This is ok because we write `self.license` into
                # *.dist-info/COPYING.
                #
                log1( f'Omitting license because contains newline(s).')
                return
            assert '\n' not in value, f'key={key} value contains newline: {value!r}'
            if key == 'Project-URL':
                assert value.count(',') == 1, f'For {key=}, should have one comma in {value!r}.'
            ret[0] += f'{key}: {value}\n'
        #add('Description', self.description)
        add('Metadata-Version', '2.1')

        # These names are from:
        # https://packaging.python.org/specifications/core-metadata/
        #
        for name in (
                'Name',
                'Version',
                'Platform',
                'Supported-Platform',
                'Summary',
                'Description-Content-Type',
                'Keywords',
                'Home-page',
                'Download-URL',
                'Author',
                'Author-email',
                'Maintainer',
                'Maintainer-email',
                'License',
                'Classifier',
                'Requires-Dist',
                'Requires-Python',
                'Requires-External',
                'Project-URL',
                'Provides-Extra',
                ):
            identifier = name.lower().replace( '-', '_')
            add( name, getattr( self, identifier))