Reference issue:
AcademySoftwareFoundation/rez#876

Steps to reproduce

• Install astroid

python3.6 -m pip install astroid==2.2.0 --user

• Run this

import os from distlib import database def main(): """Run the main execution of the current script.""" path = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~"), ".local", "lib", "python3.6", "site-packages") distribution = database.DistributionPath([path]) distributions = list(distribution.get_distributions()) if __name__ == "__main__": main()

Current behavior

• Raises this exception - ValueError: '.*' not allowed for u'>=' constraints

Expected behavior

distributions should be a non-empty list, containing at least astroid 2.2.0 as one of its entries

python -c "from astroid import __pkginfo__; print(__pkginfo__.version)" output

$ python3 -c "from astroid import __pkginfo__; print(__pkginfo__.version)" 2.3.3