list_packages

Available Functions

list_packages.main

list_packages.main.list_installed_packages(format='list')

Retrieve a list of installed Python packages.

Parameters:

format (str) – Output format. Defaults to ‘list’. Accepts ‘list’ or ‘json’.

Returns:

List of dictionaries containing package information. If format=’json’, a JSON string is returned.

Return type:

list or str

Each dictionary contains the following keys:

• ‘package’ (str): Package name.

• ‘version’ (str): Package version.

• ‘depends’ (list): List of dictionaries containing package information.

Example

[{‘package’: ‘Jinja2’, ‘version’: ‘3.1.2’, ‘depends’: [{‘package’: ‘markupsafe’, ‘version’: ‘>=2.0’}]}]

If format=’json’, the function returns a JSON-formatted string representing the list of installed packages.