gh-110937: Document full public importlib.metadata.Distribution API #143480
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This PR documents the entire remainder of the
importlib.metadata.DistributionAPI as described in #110937 (comment)It lightly restructures the narrative documentation of the
Distributionssection so the whole thing flows into the class docs.I also fixed a small issue with the signature of
Distribution.discover, which wasn’t declared as.. classmethod, and added the (already documented)PackagePathclass toimportlib.metadata.__all__.TODO:
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