Function get_data

Lib/pkgutil.py:358–398

Get a resource from a package. This is a wrapper round the PEP 302 loader get_data API. The package argument should be the name of a package, in standard module format (foo.bar). The resource argument should be in the form of a relative filename, using '/' as the path separator. The

(package, resource)

def get_data(package, resource):
    """Get a resource from a package.

    This is a wrapper round the PEP 302 loader get_data API. The package
    argument should be the name of a package, in standard module format
    (foo.bar). The resource argument should be in the form of a relative
    filename, using '/' as the path separator. The parent directory name '..'
    is not allowed, and nor is a rooted name (starting with a '/').

    The function returns a binary string, which is the contents of the
    specified resource.

    For packages located in the filesystem, which have already been imported,
    this is the rough equivalent of

        d = os.path.dirname(sys.modules[package].__file__)
        data = open(os.path.join(d, resource), 'rb').read()

    If the package cannot be located or loaded, or it uses a PEP 302 loader
    which does not support get_data(), then None is returned.
    """

    spec = importlib.util.find_spec(package)
    if spec is None:
        return None
    loader = spec.loader
    if loader is None or not hasattr(loader, 'get_data'):
        return None
    # XXX needs test
    mod = (sys.modules.get(package) or
           importlib._bootstrap._load(spec))
    if mod is None or not hasattr(mod, '__file__'):
        return None

    # Modify the resource name to be compatible with the loader.get_data
    # signature - an os.path format "filename" starting with the dirname of
    # the package's __file__
    parts = resource.split('/')
    parts.insert(0, os.path.dirname(mod.__file__))
    resource_name = os.path.join(*parts)
    return loader.get_data(resource_name)


_NAME_PATTERN = None