pip-check 2.8.1

Display installed pip packages and their update status..

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pip-check

pip-check gives you a quick overview of all installed packages and their update status. Under the hood it calls pip list --outdated --format=columns and transforms it into a more user friendly table.

Installation:

pip install pip-check

The last version that runs on Python 2.7 or 3.4 is v2.5.2. Install it with:

pip install pip-check==2.5.2

Usage:

$ pip-check -h
usage: pip-check [-h] [-a] [-c PIP_CMD] [-l] [-r] [-f] [-H] [-u] [-U]

A quick overview of all installed packages and their update status.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -a, --ascii           Display as ASCII Table
  -c PIP_CMD, --cmd PIP_CMD
                        The pip executable to run. Default: `pip`
  -l, --local           Show only virtualenv installed packages.
  -r, --not-required    List only packages that are not dependencies of
                        installed packages.
  -f, --full-version    Show full version strings.
  -H, --hide-unchanged  Do not show "unchanged" packages.
  -u, --show-update     Show update instructions for updatable packages.
  -U, --user            Show only user installed packages.

Testing:

Test against a variation of Python versions:

$ pip install tox tox-pyenv
$ tox

Test against your current Python version:

$ python setup.py test

Recommeded Similar Tools

• pip-date - Show the installation or modification times of all your pip packages

• pip-chill - Lists only the dependencies (or not) of installed packages

Changelog

v2.8.1 (2022-11-06):

• Fixes issue with packages not correctly sorted into “Major” category.

v2.8 (2022-11-06):

• Added support for Python 3.11.

• Replaced deprecated “distutils” with “packaging” module.

v2.7 (2021-11-16):

• Drop support for Python 2.7, 3.4 and 3.5

• Added support for Python 3.9 and 3.10.

• Removed ‘colorclass’ as a dependency and with that the shell argument –disable-colors.

v2.6 (2019-12-12):

• Requires Python 3.5 or higher.

• Command error is shown if pip exits with a status code 1 (or larger).

• Error message is shown if pip is not able to load packages in case of network problems.

• Update instructions will now add --user in case the pip-check command should only show user packages as well.

v2.5.2 (2019-08-08):

• This is the last version that runs on Python 2.7. Install it with pip install pip-check==2.5.2

• Windows color fixes.

v2.5.1 (2019-08-08):

• Windows script fixes.

v2.5 (2019-08-08):

• A more robust installation that installs pip-check as a proper console script.

• Added new --disable-colors argument.

• Added tests for Python 3.7 and 3.8.

• Fixed Syntax warning happening with no outdated packages.

• Cleanup of the entire codebase.

v2.4 (2019-07-23):

• Added support to only show packages from the user or local package namespace.

v2.3.3 (2018-02-19):

• Visual fixes around --show-update

v2.3.2 (2018-02-18):

• New --show-update argument.

• Fixed --full-versions argument.

• Minor UI improvements.

v2.1 (2018-02-18):

• Complete new architecture. It now calls pip directly and parses it output which should be more reliable.

• It’s also using distutils for the version comparision now, which is more reliable as well.

• Lots of features and bug fixes.

v0.2 (2016-02-09):

• Fixes issues with older pip versions.

• Truncates extremly long version numbers.

v0.1 (2016-02-06):

• Very first version, and yet with very limited features.