Documentation

Since pkg_resources is deprecated, I'm trying to migrate pkg_resources.working_set to importlib.metadata.

working set
A collection of distributions actually available for importing, as on sys.path. At most one distribution (release version) of a given project may be present in a working set, as otherwise there would be ambiguity as to what to import.
--- https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/pkg_resources.html

The doc doesn't provide an example for retrieving all installed packages.

By searching in the source code, distributions returns the installed Distributions.

I think it's a useful function and should be added to the document.

Linked PRs

• gh-136023: Add doc for importlib.metadata.distributions #136024