The official unofficial pip API
Project description
The official unofficial pip API.
About
Since pip is a command-line-tool, it does not have
an official, supported, importable
API.
However, this does not mean that people haven't tried to import pip, usually
to end up with much headache when pip's maintainers do routine refactoring.
This project attempts to provide an importable pip API, which is fully
compliant with the recommended method of using pip from your program.
Supported Commands
Not all commands are supported in all versions of pip and on all platforms.
If the command you are trying to use is not compatible, pip_api will raise a
pip_api.exceptions.Incompatible exception for your program to catch.
Available with all pip versions:
pip_api.version()Returns the
pipversion as a string, e.g."9.0.1"
Available with pip>=8.0.0:
pip_api.hash(filename, algorithm='sha256')Returns the resulting as a string. Valid
algorithmparameters are'sha256','sha384', and'sha512'
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