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Command-line tool for querying PyPI and Python packages installed on your system.

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You can install yolk with pip install yolk or via your distro’s package manager, if available.

As of 0.0.7 yolk is in Gentoo’s Portage tree as dev-python/yolk and a plugin for Portage named dev-python/yolk-portage. The portage plugin shows you which Python packages were installed via Portage and which were installed directly with pip (or easy_install). Check out that plugin and make one for your favorite distro. It’s a great way to find Python cruft.

Summary

Yolk is a Python tool for obtaining information about installed Python packages and querying packages available on PyPI (Python Package Index).

You can see which packages are active, non-active or in development mode and show you which have newer versions available by querying PyPI.

Usage Examples:

$ yolk -l
     List all installed Python packages

$ yolk -a
     List only the activated packages installed (Activated packages are
     normal packages on sys.path you can import)

$ yolk -n
     List only the non-activated (--multi-version) packages installed

$ yolk -l -f License,Author nose==1.0
     Show the license and author for version 1.0 of the package `nose`

$ yolk --entry-map nose
     Show entry map for the nose package

$ yolk --entry-points nose.plugins
     Show all setuptools entry points for nose.plugins

These options query PyPI:

$ yolk -U pkg_name
     Shows if an update for pkg_name is available by querying PyPI

$ yolk -U
     Checks PyPI to see if any installed Python packages have updates
     available.

$ yolk -F Paste
     Download source tarball for latest version of Paste to your current
     directory

$ yolk -F Paste -T svn
     Do a subversion checkout for Paste to a directory named Paste_svn in
     your current directory.

$ yolk -L 2
     Show list of CheeseShop releases in the last two hours

$ yolk -C 2
     Show detailed list of changes in the CheeseShop in the last two hours

$ yolk -M Paste==1.0
     Show all the metadata for Paste version 1.0

$ yolk -M Paste
     Show all the metadata for the latest version of Paste listed on PyPi

$ yolk -D cheesecake
     Show all (source, egg, svn) URL's for the latest version of cheesecake
     packages

 $ yolk -T source -D cheesecake
     Show only source code releases for cheesecake

 $ yolk -H twisted
     Launches your web browser at Twisted's home page

Tips and Tricks

  • Use yolk inside your virtualenv to see which packages are installed.

  • Upgrade all installed Python packages:

    $ pip install -U $(yolk -U | awk '{print $1}' | uniq)

Requirements

  • setuptools (Distribute preferred)

  • elementtree (For RSS feed option extra_requires [RSS]) (included in Python >= 2.5)

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