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The ``Description`` is now included in the metadata when presented
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Distribution Discovery
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======================
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By default, this package provides built-in support for discovery of metadata for file system and zip file packages. This metadata finder search defaults to ``sys.path``, but varies slightly in how it interprets those values from how other import machinery does. In particular:
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- ``importlib.metadata`` does not honor :class:`bytes` objects on ``sys.path``.
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- ``importlib.metadata`` will incidentally honor :py:class:`pathlib.Path` objects on ``sys.path`` even though such values will be ignored for imports.
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