This is the pyxattr module, a Python extension module which gives access to the extended attributes for filesystem objects available in some operating systems. For usage details, see the documentation of the module using pydoc. The project web page is http://pyxattr.sourceforge.net You need to have setuptools installed in order to build and install the module. Author: Iustin Pop, Starting with version 0.3, pyxattr is licensed under the GNU LGPL, version 3 or any later version (see COPYING.LPGL-3). Previous versions were licensed under GPL v2 or later.