I posted this question on the git issue tracker: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/2969
Can we have some manner of calling pip freeze/list within python, i.e. not a shell context?
I want to be able to import pip and do something like requirements = pip.freeze(). Calling pip.main(['freeze']) writes to stdout, doesn't return str values.
There's a pip.operation.freeze in newer releases (>1.x):
try:
from pip._internal.operations import freeze
except ImportError: # pip < 10.0
from pip.operations import freeze
x = freeze.freeze()
for p in x:
print p
Output is as expected:
amqp==1.4.6
anyjson==0.3.3
billiard==3.3.0.20
defusedxml==0.4.1
Django==1.8.1
django-picklefield==0.3.1
docutils==0.12
... etc
Actually from pip >= 10.0.0
package operations.freeze
has moved to pip._internal.operations.freeze
.
So the safe way to import freeze
is:
try:
from pip._internal.operations import freeze
except ImportError:
from pip.operations import freeze