module pycode.pip_helper

Short summary

module pyquickhelper.pycode.pip_helper

Helpers for pip

Some links to look:

• installing_python_packages_programatically.py

• Calling pip programmatically

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Classes

class	truncated documentation
PQPipError	any exception raised by one of the following function

Functions

function	truncated documentation
get_package_info	Calls pip show to retrieve information about packages.
get_packages_list	calls pip list to retrieve the list of packages
package2dict	Extracts information from a package.

Methods

method	truncated documentation
__init__	constructor

Documentation

Helpers for pip

Some links to look:

• installing_python_packages_programatically.py

• Calling pip programmatically

source on GitHub

exception pyquickhelper.pycode.pip_helper.PQPipError(*l)

Bases: Exception

any exception raised by one of the following function

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constructor

Parameters

l – either a string 3 strings (cmd, out, err)

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__init__(*l)

constructor

Parameters

l – either a string 3 strings (cmd, out, err)

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pyquickhelper.pycode.pip_helper.get_package_info(name=None, start=0, end=-1)

Calls pip show to retrieve information about packages.

Parameters

• name – name of he packages or None to get all of them in a list

• start – start at package n (in list return by get_packages_list)

• end – end at package n, -1 for all

Returns

dictionary or list of dictionaries

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pyquickhelper.pycode.pip_helper.get_packages_list()

calls pip list to retrieve the list of packages

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pyquickhelper.pycode.pip_helper.package2dict(pkg)

Extracts information from a package.

Parameters

pkg – type pip._vendor.pkg_resources.Distribution

Returns

dictionary

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