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Document importlib.metadata.PackagePath.locate method (GH-25669)

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@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ Distribution files
You can also get the full set of files contained within a distribution. The
``files()`` function takes a distribution package name and returns all of the
files installed by this distribution. Each file object returned is a
``PackagePath``, a :class:`pathlib.Path` derived object with additional ``dist``,
``PackagePath``, a :class:`pathlib.PurePath` derived object with additional ``dist``,
``size``, and ``hash`` properties as indicated by the metadata. For example::
>>> util = [p for p in files('wheel') if 'util.py' in str(p)][0] # doctest: +SKIP
@ -215,6 +215,12 @@ Once you have the file, you can also read its contents::
return s.encode('utf-8')
return s
You can also use the ``locate`` method to get a the absolute path to the
file::
>>> util.locate() # doctest: +SKIP
PosixPath('/home/gustav/example/lib/site-packages/wheel/util.py')
In the case where the metadata file listing files
(RECORD or SOURCES.txt) is missing, ``files()`` will
return ``None``. The caller may wish to wrap calls to