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pip show --json

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Pip version: 10
Python version: any
Operating system: any

Description:

This is a feature request, related to #3568 and 4824, but made more necessary by the privatization of pip’s internals: let pip show gain a --json flag (or --format=(humanreadable|json)) (also handling pip show --files) that outputs the result as json (or whatever other format you deem suitable, but pip list already has --format=json (hence the suggestion of --format=json instead of --json above). Otherwise, it becomes necessary to either parse the output of pip show, or to just copy-paste pip’s implementation, in order to access the same metadata.

What I’ve run:

e.g.

pip show pip

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Created 5 years ago
Reactions:5
Comments:26 (18 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

7reactions

xavfernandezcommented, Feb 11, 2019

Since --format=json has already been added to pip list I’m in favor of adding the same to pip show.

3reactions

MarckKcommented, Oct 27, 2018

Hi @minggli, the PR improves documentation on existing functionality. @kynan and I are working on fixing the issue. 😃

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