Module metadata

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Provides an easy-to-use python interface to Gentoo's metadata.xml file.

Example usage:

>>> from portage.xml.metadata import MetaDataXML
>>> pkg_md = MetaDataXML('/usr/portage/app-misc/gourmet/metadata.xml')
>>> pkg_md
<MetaDataXML '/usr/portage/app-misc/gourmet/metadata.xml'>
>>> pkg_md.herds()
['no-herd']
>>> for maint in pkg_md.maintainers():
...     print "{0} ({1})".format(maint.email, maint.name)
...
nixphoeni@gentoo.org (Joe Sapp)
>>> for flag in pkg_md.use():
...     print flag.name, "->", flag.description
...
rtf -> Enable export to RTF
gnome-print -> Enable printing support using gnome-print
>>> upstream = pkg_md.upstream()
>>> upstream
[<_Upstream {'docs': [], 'remoteid': [], 'maintainer':
 [<_Maintainer 'Thomas_Hinkle@alumni.brown.edu'>], 'bugtracker': [],
 'changelog': []}>]
>>> upstream[0].maintainer[0].name
'Thomas Mills Hinkle'

Imports: sys, etree, ExpatError, re, xml, _encodings, _unicode_encode, unique_everseen