Command line utility to show dependency tree of packages
Project description
pipdeptree is a command line utility for displaying the python packages installed in an environment in form of a dependency tree. Since pip freeze shows all dependencies as a flat list, finding out which are the top level packages and which packages do they depend on requires some effort. This utility tries to solve this problem.
Installation
$ pip install pipdeptreeUsage and examples
To give you a brief idea, here is the output of pipdeptree compared with pip freeze:
$ pip freeze
Flask==0.10.1
Flask-Script==0.6.6
Jinja2==2.7.2
Mako==0.9.1
MarkupSafe==0.18
SQLAlchemy==0.9.1
Werkzeug==0.9.4
alembic==0.6.2
argparse==1.2.1
itsdangerous==0.23
psycopg2==2.5.2
redis==2.9.1
slugify==0.0.1
wsgiref==0.1.2And now see what pipdeptree outputs,
$ pipdeptree
wsgiref==0.1.2
argparse==1.2.1
psycopg2==2.5.2
Flask-Script==0.6.6
- Flask [installed: 0.10.1]
- Werkzeug [required: >=0.7, installed: 0.9.4]
- Jinja2 [required: >=2.4, installed: 2.7.2]
- markupsafe [installed: 0.18]
- itsdangerous [required: >=0.21, installed: 0.23]
alembic==0.6.2
- SQLAlchemy [required: >=0.7.3, installed: 0.9.1]
- Mako [installed: 0.9.1]
- MarkupSafe [required: >=0.9.2, installed: 0.18]
slugify==0.0.1
redis==2.9.1If you wish to track only the top level packages in your requirements.txt file, you could use grep as follows,
$ pipdeptree | grep -P '^[\w0-9\-=.]+'
wsgiref==0.1.2
argparse==1.2.1
psycopg2==2.5.2
Flask-Script==0.6.6
alembic==0.6.2
slugify==0.0.1
redis==2.9.1
$ pipdeptree | grep -P '^[\w0-9\-=.]+' > requirements.txtUsage
$ pipdeptree -h
usage: pipdeptree [-h] [-a] [-l]
Dependency tree of the installed python packages
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-a, --all list all deps at top level
-l, --local-only list only the installations local to the current
virtualenv, if in a virtualenvKnown Issues
One thing you might have noticed already is that flask is shown as a dependency of flask-script, which although correct, sounds a bit odd. flask-script is being used here because we are using flask and not the other way around. Same with sqlalchemy and alembic. I haven’t yet thought about a possible solution to this! (May be if libs that are “extensions” could be distinguished from the ones that are “dependencies”. Suggestions are welcome.)
License
MIT (See LICENSE)
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