[rudra337-lgtm]

Fixes #523.

EntryPoint.__init__ previously parsed and validated value immediately. Since entry_points(group=...) constructs entries before applying the group filter, one malformed entry in an unrelated group could prevent callers from retrieving valid entries. Defer parsing until a component is accessed or load() is called; malformed entries still raise ValueError when used.

The regression test creates a distribution with a valid selected group and an invalid unselected group, verifies selection succeeds, and verifies loading the invalid entry still raises ValueError.

Validation:

• tests/test_api.py: 38 passed, 39 subtests passed.
• Existing TestEntryPoints unit tests: 8 passed.
• Ruff and git diff --check passed.

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[jaraco]

The distinctive difference here is that it does not fail prior to loading, so I'd change this example to capture that expectation. i.e. "raises only when accessed or loaded" and then in the example, construct one to a variable and then have the exception raise on load.

Suggested change

	>>> EntryPoint(name=None, group=None, value='invalid-name').load()
	>>> ep = EntryPoint(name=None, group=None, value='invalid-name')
	>>> ep.load()

[jaraco]

Done in 7d96b5a — the example now constructs ep and raises on ep.load(), with the prose reading "Construction never raises; the value is validated only when accessed or loaded."

Also in that commit: dropped the redundant textwrap.dedent from the new test (tests/fixtures.py already dedents and left-strips all string file contents), normalized the fixture dist-info name, and matched the assertion style of the neighboring tests.