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61 You can get the :ref:`metadata for a distribution <metadata>`::
66 You can also get a :ref:`distribution's version number <version>`, list its
67 :ref:`constituent files <files>`, and get a list of the distribution's
159 Every distribution includes some metadata, which you can extract using the
166 the values are returned unparsed from the distribution metadata::
190 The ``version()`` function is the quickest way to get a distribution's version
202 You can also get the full set of files contained within a distribution.  The
203 ``files()`` function takes a distribution package name and returns all of the
204 files installed by this distribution.  Each file object returned is a
241 distribution is not known to have the metadata present.
248 To get the full set of requirements for a distribution, use the ``requires()``
258 A convenience method to resolve the distribution or
276     >>> from importlib.metadata import distribution  # doctest: +SKIP
277     >>> dist = distribution('wheel')  # doctest: +SKIP
302 system :ref:`finders <finders-and-loaders>`.  To find a distribution package's metadata,
328 What this means in practice is that to support finding distribution package