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I have very little experience with (i.e. don't really know) python but I'm currently trying to produce a mac app bundle for a package (and ideally after, a script to make it reproducible).

I've tried several approaches but made the most progress by combining py2app, gtk-mac-bundler and good old shell scripting. Still, this produces due to missing distributions (I realized yesterday it's caused by missing egg/dist-info, which are not supported and have been on the py2app feature request list since forever)

Of course, I could just copy all these files in a dumb way, using glob patterns in my shell but I fear that would go against reproducible builds in the future. So, is there any way by which I can get a reference to the files on disk, taking a package name or similar as an argument?

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These libraries are able to read metadata from installed distributions (and more):

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Thanks! I think in the end my problem was the documentation because I'd seen most of those modules but hadn't been able to find what I needed. In the end, I took a look at the source code and realized importlib.metadata (and importlib_metadata) suit my needs via distribution()._path

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