PEP 819: JSON Package Metadata
This PEP proposes introducing JSON encoded core metadata and wheel file format metadata files in Python packages. Python package metadata (“core metadata”) was first defined in PEP 241 to use RFC 822 email headers to encode information about packages. This was reasonable in 2001; email messages were the only widely used, standardized text format that had a parser in the standard library. However, issues with handling different encodings, differing handling of line breaks, and other differences between i … ⌘ Read more