Comment 2 for bug 1452436

I am not familiar with the distutils database. I googled and I found setuptools pkg_resources and PEP 376, unfortunately I was not able to find any standard functions in python 2.7 that are able to query the database described in PEP 376. Do they exist? Or is the best way to do that is to use setuputils in python 2.7? Thank you for the advise.