Issue 2439: add pkgutils.get_data() as a convenience wrapper for the PEP 302 get_data() API (contributed by Paul Moore)
diff --git a/Lib/pkgutil.py b/Lib/pkgutil.py
index 37738e4..c50928f 100644
--- a/Lib/pkgutil.py
+++ b/Lib/pkgutil.py
@@ -544,3 +544,40 @@
f.close()
return path
+
+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.
+ """
+
+ loader = get_loader(package)
+ if loader is None or not hasattr(loader, 'get_data'):
+ return None
+ mod = sys.modules.get(package) or loader.load_module(package)
+ 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)