Given the name of a Python (2.X) package that can be installed with pip and virtualenv, is there any way to find out a list of all the possible versions of it that pip could install? Right now it's trial and error.
I'm trying to install a version for a third party library, but the newest version is too new, there were backwards incompatible changes made. So I'd like to somehow have a list of all the versions that pip knows about, so that I can test them.
The script at pastebin does work. However it's not very convenient if you're working with multiple environments/hosts because you will have to copy/create it every time.
A better all-around solution would be to use yolk, which is available to install with pip. E.g. to see what versions of Django are available:
$ pip install yolk3k
$ yolk -V django
Django 1.3
Django 1.2.5
Django 1.2.4
Django 1.2.3
Django 1.2.2
Django 1.2.1
Django 1.2
Django 1.1.4
Django 1.1.3
Django 1.1.2
Django 1.0.4
A minor caveat: yolk depends on distribute. This is not a bad thing, but it may be a problem if you need for some reason to stick with (the deprecated) python setuptools.
Note: I am not involved in the development of yolk. If something doesn't seem to work as it should, leaving a comment here should not make much difference. Use the yolk issue tracker instead and consider submitting a fix, if possible.
For pip >= 9.0 use
$ pip install pylibmc==
Collecting pylibmc==
Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pylibmc== (from
versions: 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5.1, 0.5.2, 0.5.3, 0.5.4, 0.5.5, 0.5, 0.6.1, 0.6,
0.7.1, 0.7.2, 0.7.3, 0.7.4, 0.7, 0.8.1, 0.8.2, 0.8, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9,
1.0-alpha, 1.0-beta, 1.0, 1.1.1, 1.1, 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.3.0)
No matching distribution found for pylibmc==
– all the available versions will be printed without actually downloading or installing any additional packages.
For pip < 9.0 use
pip install pylibmc==blork
where blork can be any string that is not likely to be an install candidate.
Update:
As of Sep 2017 this method no longer works: --no-install was removed in pip 7
Use pip install -v, you can see all versions that available
root@node7:~# pip install web.py -v
Downloading/unpacking web.py
Using version 0.37 (newest of versions: 0.37, 0.36, 0.35, 0.34, 0.33, 0.33, 0.32, 0.31, 0.22, 0.2)
Downloading web.py-0.37.tar.gz (90Kb): 90Kb downloaded
Running setup.py egg_info for package web.py
running egg_info
creating pip-egg-info/web.py.egg-info
To not install any package, use one of following solution:
root@node7:~# pip install --no-deps --no-install flask -v
Downloading/unpacking flask
Using version 0.10.1 (newest of versions: 0.10.1, 0.10, 0.9, 0.8.1, 0.8, 0.7.2, 0.7.1, 0.7, 0.6.1, 0.6, 0.5.2, 0.5.1, 0.5, 0.4, 0.3.1, 0.3, 0.2, 0.1)
Downloading Flask-0.10.1.tar.gz (544Kb): 544Kb downloaded
or
root@node7:~# cd $(mktemp -d)
root@node7:/tmp/tmp.c6H99cWD0g# pip install flask -d . -v
Downloading/unpacking flask
Using version 0.10.1 (newest of versions: 0.10.1, 0.10, 0.9, 0.8.1, 0.8, 0.7.2, 0.7.1, 0.7, 0.6.1, 0.6, 0.5.2, 0.5.1, 0.5, 0.4, 0.3.1, 0.3, 0.2, 0.1)
Downloading Flask-0.10.1.tar.gz (544Kb): 4.1Kb downloaded
Tested with pip 1.0
root@node7:~# pip --version
pip 1.0 from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (python 2.7)
You don't need a third party package to get this information. pypi provides simple JSON feeds for all packages under
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/{PKG_NAME}/json
Here's some Python code using only the standard library which gets all versions.
import json
import urllib2
from distutils.version import StrictVersion
def versions(package_name):
url = "https://pypi.python.org/pypi/%s/json" % (package_name,)
data = json.load(urllib2.urlopen(urllib2.Request(url)))
versions = data["releases"].keys()
versions.sort(key=StrictVersion)
return versions
print "\n".join(versions("scikit-image"))
That code prints (as of Feb 23rd, 2015):
0.7.2
0.8.0
0.8.1
0.8.2
0.9.0
0.9.1
0.9.2
0.9.3
0.10.0
0.10.1
You could the yolk3k package instead of yolk. yolk3k is a fork from the original yolk and it supports both python2 and 3.
https://github.com/myint/yolk
pip install yolk3k
After looking at pip's code for a while, it looks like the code responsible for locating packages can be found in the PackageFinder class in pip.index. Its method find_requirement looks up the versions of a InstallRequirement, but unfortunately only returns the most recent version.
The code below is almost a 1:1 copy of the original function, with the return in line 114 changed to return all versions.
The script expects one package name as first and only argument and returns all versions.
http://pastebin.com/axzdUQhZ
I can't guarantee for the correctness, as I'm not familiar with pip's code. But hopefully this helps.
Sample output
$ python test.py pip
Versions of pip
0.8.2
0.8.1
0.8
0.7.2
0.7.1
0.7
0.6.3
0.6.2
0.6.1
0.6
0.5.1
0.5
0.4
0.3.1
0.3
0.2.1
0.2 dev
The code:
import posixpath
import pkg_resources
import sys
from pip.download import url_to_path
from pip.exceptions import DistributionNotFound
from pip.index import PackageFinder, Link
from pip.log import logger
from pip.req import InstallRequirement
from pip.util import Inf
class MyPackageFinder(PackageFinder):
def find_requirement(self, req, upgrade):
url_name = req.url_name
# Only check main index if index URL is given:
main_index_url = None
if self.index_urls:
# Check that we have the url_name correctly spelled:
main_index_url = Link(posixpath.join(self.index_urls[0], url_name))
# This will also cache the page, so it's okay that we get it again later:
page = self._get_page(main_index_url, req)
if page is None:
url_name = self._find_url_name(Link(self.index_urls[0]), url_name, req) or req.url_name
# Combine index URLs with mirror URLs here to allow
# adding more index URLs from requirements files
all_index_urls = self.index_urls + self.mirror_urls
def mkurl_pypi_url(url):
loc = posixpath.join(url, url_name)
# For maximum compatibility with easy_install, ensure the path
# ends in a trailing slash. Although this isn't in the spec
# (and PyPI can handle it without the slash) some other index
# implementations might break if they relied on easy_install's behavior.
if not loc.endswith('/'):
loc = loc + '/'
return loc
if url_name is not None:
locations = [
mkurl_pypi_url(url)
for url in all_index_urls] + self.find_links
else:
locations = list(self.find_links)
locations.extend(self.dependency_links)
for version in req.absolute_versions:
if url_name is not None and main_index_url is not None:
locations = [
posixpath.join(main_index_url.url, version)] + locations
file_locations, url_locations = self._sort_locations(locations)
locations = [Link(url) for url in url_locations]
logger.debug('URLs to search for versions for %s:' % req)
for location in locations:
logger.debug('* %s' % location)
found_versions = []
found_versions.extend(
self._package_versions(
[Link(url, '-f') for url in self.find_links], req.name.lower()))
page_versions = []
for page in self._get_pages(locations, req):
logger.debug('Analyzing links from page %s' % page.url)
logger.indent += 2
try:
page_versions.extend(self._package_versions(page.links, req.name.lower()))
finally:
logger.indent -= 2
dependency_versions = list(self._package_versions(
[Link(url) for url in self.dependency_links], req.name.lower()))
if dependency_versions:
logger.info('dependency_links found: %s' % ', '.join([link.url for parsed, link, version in dependency_versions]))
file_versions = list(self._package_versions(
[Link(url) for url in file_locations], req.name.lower()))
if not found_versions and not page_versions and not dependency_versions and not file_versions:
logger.fatal('Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement %s' % req)
raise DistributionNotFound('No distributions at all found for %s' % req)
if req.satisfied_by is not None:
found_versions.append((req.satisfied_by.parsed_version, Inf, req.satisfied_by.version))
if file_versions:
file_versions.sort(reverse=True)
logger.info('Local files found: %s' % ', '.join([url_to_path(link.url) for parsed, link, version in file_versions]))
found_versions = file_versions + found_versions
all_versions = found_versions + page_versions + dependency_versions
applicable_versions = []
for (parsed_version, link, version) in all_versions:
if version not in req.req:
logger.info("Ignoring link %s, version %s doesn't match %s"
% (link, version, ','.join([''.join(s) for s in req.req.specs])))
continue
applicable_versions.append((link, version))
applicable_versions = sorted(applicable_versions, key=lambda v: pkg_resources.parse_version(v[1]), reverse=True)
existing_applicable = bool([link for link, version in applicable_versions if link is Inf])
if not upgrade and existing_applicable:
if applicable_versions[0][1] is Inf:
logger.info('Existing installed version (%s) is most up-to-date and satisfies requirement'
% req.satisfied_by.version)
else:
logger.info('Existing installed version (%s) satisfies requirement (most up-to-date version is %s)'
% (req.satisfied_by.version, applicable_versions[0][1]))
return None
if not applicable_versions:
logger.fatal('Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement %s (from versions: %s)'
% (req, ', '.join([version for parsed_version, link, version in found_versions])))
raise DistributionNotFound('No distributions matching the version for %s' % req)
if applicable_versions[0][0] is Inf:
# We have an existing version, and its the best version
logger.info('Installed version (%s) is most up-to-date (past versions: %s)'
% (req.satisfied_by.version, ', '.join([version for link, version in applicable_versions[1:]]) or 'none'))
return None
if len(applicable_versions) > 1:
logger.info('Using version %s (newest of versions: %s)' %
(applicable_versions[0][1], ', '.join([version for link, version in applicable_versions])))
return applicable_versions
if __name__ == '__main__':
req = InstallRequirement.from_line(sys.argv[1], None)
finder = MyPackageFinder([], ['http://pypi.python.org/simple/'])
versions = finder.find_requirement(req, False)
print 'Versions of %s' % sys.argv[1]
for v in versions:
print v[1]
I came up with dead-simple bash script. Thanks to jq's author.
#!/bin/bash
set -e
PACKAGE_JSON_URL="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/${1}/json"
curl -s "$PACKAGE_JSON_URL" | jq -r '.releases | keys | .[]' | sort -V
Update: Add sorting by version number.
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Django/ - works for packages whose maintainers choose to show all packages https://pypi.python.org/simple/pip/ - should do the trick anyhow (lists all links)
I know this is kind of silly but you can try something like this:
pip install django == x
This will error out but will list all the versions that are available for this package.
Just replace django with the package you want and also I believe, hopefully, there is no such version called x.
I didn't have any luck with yolk, yolk3k or pip install -v but so I ended up using this (adapted to Python 3 from eric chiang's answer):
import json
import requests
from distutils.version import StrictVersion
def versions(package_name):
url = "https://pypi.python.org/pypi/{}/json".format(package_name)
data = requests.get(url).json()
return sorted(list(data["releases"].keys()), key=StrictVersion, reverse=True)
>>> print("\n".join(versions("gunicorn")))
19.1.1
19.1.0
19.0.0
18.0
17.5
0.17.4
0.17.3
...
Pip 7.1.0 has removed --no-install option from install. I found a method to get all versions of a package without any extra package.
$ pip install --no-deps Django==x.x.x
Collecting Django==x.x.x.
Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement Django==x.x.x. (from versions: 1.1.3, 1.1.4, 1.2, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.4, 1.2.5, 1.2.6, 1.2.7, 1.3, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.3.4, 1.3.5, 1.3.6, 1.3.7, 1.4, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.3, 1.4.4, 1.4.5, 1.4.6, 1.4.7, 1.4.8, 1.4.9, 1.4.10, 1.4.11, 1.4.12, 1.4.13, 1.4.14, 1.4.15, 1.4.16, 1.4.17, 1.4.18, 1.4.19, 1.4.20, 1.5, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.3, 1.5.4, 1.5.5, 1.5.6, 1.5.7, 1.5.8, 1.5.9, 1.5.10, 1.5.11, 1.5.12, 1.6, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.6.3, 1.6.4, 1.6.5, 1.6.6, 1.6.7, 1.6.8, 1.6.9, 1.6.10, 1.6.11, 1.7, 1.7.1, 1.7.2, 1.7.3, 1.7.4, 1.7.5, 1.7.6, 1.7.7, 1.7.8, 1.8a1, 1.8b1, 1.8b2, 1.8rc1, 1.8, 1.8.1, 1.8.2)
No matching distribution found for Django==x.x.x.
This works for me on OSX:
pip install docker-compose== 2>&1 | grep -oE '(\(.*\))' | awk -F:\ '{print$NF}' | sed -E 's/( |\))//g' | tr ',' '\n'
It returns the list one per line:
1.1.0rc1
1.1.0rc2
1.1.0
1.2.0rc1
1.2.0rc2
1.2.0rc3
1.2.0rc4
1.2.0
1.3.0rc1
1.3.0rc2
1.3.0rc3
1.3.0
1.3.1
1.3.2
1.3.3
1.4.0rc1
1.4.0rc2
1.4.0rc3
1.4.0
1.4.1
1.4.2
1.5.0rc1
1.5.0rc2
1.5.0rc3
1.5.0
1.5.1
1.5.2
1.6.0rc1
1.6.0
1.6.1
1.6.2
1.7.0rc1
1.7.0rc2
1.7.0
1.7.1
1.8.0rc1
1.8.0rc2
1.8.0
1.8.1
1.9.0rc1
1.9.0rc2
1.9.0rc3
1.9.0rc4
1.9.0
1.10.0rc1
1.10.0rc2
1.10.0
Or to get the latest version available:
pip install docker-compose== 2>&1 | grep -oE '(\(.*\))' | awk -F:\ '{print$NF}' | sed -E 's/( |\))//g' | tr ',' '\n' | gsort -r -V | head -1
1.10.0rc2
Keep in mind gsort has to be installed (on OSX) to parse the versions. You can install it with brew install coreutils
You can use this short Python3 snippet to grab the list of available versions for a package from PyPI. Unlike some other Python solutions posted here, this doesn't break on loose versions like django's 1.10rc1 or uwsgi's 2.0.13.1:
>>> import requests
>>> from pkg_resources import parse_version
>>>
>>> def versions(name):
... url = "https://pypi.python.org/pypi/{}/json".format(name)
... return sorted(requests.get(url).json()["releases"], key=parse_version)
...
>>> print(*reversed(versions("Django")), sep="\n")
1.10.3
1.10.2
1.10.1
1.10
1.10rc1
1.10b1
1.10a1
...
I just ran this:
pip show packagename
e.g.:
> pip3 show setuptools
---
Metadata-Version: 2.0
Name: setuptools
Version: 18.4
Summary: Easily download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages
Home-page: https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools
Author: Python Packaging Authority
Author-email: distutils-sig@python.org
License: PSF or ZPL
Location: /usr/local/lib/python3.4/site-packages
Requires:
Here's the current Python pip-based method, searching the legacy PyPi package API:
from pip import index
import requests
finder = index.PackageFinder(
[],
['https://pypi.python.org/simple'],
session=requests.Session()
)
results = finder.find_all_candidates("package_name")
versions = [p.version for p in results]
My take is a combination of a couple of posted answers, with some modifications to make them easier to use from within a running python environment.
The idea is to provide a entirely new command (modeled after the install command) that gives you an instance of the package finder to use. The upside is that it works with, and uses, any indexes that pip supports and reads your local pip configuration files, so you get the correct results as you would with a normal pip install.
I've made an attempt at making it compatible with both pip v 9.x and 10.x.. but only tried it on 9.x
https://gist.github.com/kaos/68511bd013fcdebe766c981f50b473d4
#!/usr/bin/env python
# When you want a easy way to get at all (or the latest) version of a certain python package from a PyPi index.
import sys
import logging
try:
from pip._internal import cmdoptions, main
from pip._internal.commands import commands_dict
from pip._internal.basecommand import RequirementCommand
except ImportError:
from pip import cmdoptions, main
from pip.commands import commands_dict
from pip.basecommand import RequirementCommand
from pip._vendor.packaging.version import parse as parse_version
logger = logging.getLogger('pip')
class ListPkgVersionsCommand(RequirementCommand):
"""
List all available versions for a given package from:
- PyPI (and other indexes) using requirement specifiers.
- VCS project urls.
- Local project directories.
- Local or remote source archives.
"""
name = "list-pkg-versions"
usage = """
%prog [options] <requirement specifier> [package-index-options] ...
%prog [options] [-e] <vcs project url> ...
%prog [options] [-e] <local project path> ...
%prog [options] <archive url/path> ..."""
summary = 'List package versions.'
def __init__(self, *args, **kw):
super(ListPkgVersionsCommand, self).__init__(*args, **kw)
cmd_opts = self.cmd_opts
cmd_opts.add_option(cmdoptions.install_options())
cmd_opts.add_option(cmdoptions.global_options())
cmd_opts.add_option(cmdoptions.use_wheel())
cmd_opts.add_option(cmdoptions.no_use_wheel())
cmd_opts.add_option(cmdoptions.no_binary())
cmd_opts.add_option(cmdoptions.only_binary())
cmd_opts.add_option(cmdoptions.pre())
cmd_opts.add_option(cmdoptions.require_hashes())
index_opts = cmdoptions.make_option_group(
cmdoptions.index_group,
self.parser,
)
self.parser.insert_option_group(0, index_opts)
self.parser.insert_option_group(0, cmd_opts)
def run(self, options, args):
cmdoptions.resolve_wheel_no_use_binary(options)
cmdoptions.check_install_build_global(options)
with self._build_session(options) as session:
finder = self._build_package_finder(options, session)
# do what you please with the finder object here... ;)
for pkg in args:
logger.info(
'%s: %s', pkg,
', '.join(
sorted(
set(str(c.version) for c in finder.find_all_candidates(pkg)),
key=parse_version,
)
)
)
commands_dict[ListPkgVersionsCommand.name] = ListPkgVersionsCommand
if __name__ == '__main__':
sys.exit(main())
Example output
$ ./list-pkg-versions.py list-pkg-versions pika django
pika: 0.5, 0.5.1, 0.5.2, 0.9.1a0, 0.9.2a0, 0.9.3, 0.9.4, 0.9.5, 0.9.6, 0.9.7, 0.9.8, 0.9.9, 0.9.10, 0.9.11, 0.9.12, 0.9.13, 0.9.14, 0.10.0b1, 0.10.0b2, 0.10.0, 0.11.0b1, 0.11.0, 0.11.1, 0.11.2, 0.12.0b2
django: 1.1.3, 1.1.4, 1.2, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.4, 1.2.5, 1.2.6, 1.2.7, 1.3, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.3.4, 1.3.5, 1.3.6, 1.3.7, 1.4, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.3, 1.4.4, 1.4.5, 1.4.6, 1.4.7, 1.4.8, 1.4.9, 1.4.10, 1.4.11, 1.4.12, 1.4.13, 1.4.14, 1.4.15, 1.4.16, 1.4.17, 1.4.18, 1.4.19, 1.4.20, 1.4.21, 1.4.22, 1.5, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.3, 1.5.4, 1.5.5, 1.5.6, 1.5.7, 1.5.8, 1.5.9, 1.5.10, 1.5.11, 1.5.12, 1.6, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.6.3, 1.6.4, 1.6.5, 1.6.6, 1.6.7, 1.6.8, 1.6.9, 1.6.10, 1.6.11, 1.7, 1.7.1, 1.7.2, 1.7.3, 1.7.4, 1.7.5, 1.7.6, 1.7.7, 1.7.8, 1.7.9, 1.7.10, 1.7.11, 1.8a1, 1.8b1, 1.8b2, 1.8rc1, 1.8, 1.8.1, 1.8.2, 1.8.3, 1.8.4, 1.8.5, 1.8.6, 1.8.7, 1.8.8, 1.8.9, 1.8.10, 1.8.11, 1.8.12, 1.8.13, 1.8.14, 1.8.15, 1.8.16, 1.8.17, 1.8.18, 1.8.19, 1.9a1, 1.9b1, 1.9rc1, 1.9rc2, 1.9, 1.9.1, 1.9.2, 1.9.3, 1.9.4, 1.9.5, 1.9.6, 1.9.7, 1.9.8, 1.9.9, 1.9.10, 1.9.11, 1.9.12, 1.9.13, 1.10a1, 1.10b1, 1.10rc1, 1.10, 1.10.1, 1.10.2, 1.10.3, 1.10.4, 1.10.5, 1.10.6, 1.10.7, 1.10.8, 1.11a1, 1.11b1, 1.11rc1, 1.11, 1.11.1, 1.11.2, 1.11.3, 1.11.4, 1.11.5, 1.11.6, 1.11.7, 1.11.8, 1.11.9, 1.11.10, 1.11.11, 1.11.12, 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4
Alternative solution is to use the Warehouse APIs:
https://warehouse.readthedocs.io/api-reference/json/#release
For instance for Flask:
import requests
r = requests.get("https://pypi.org/pypi/Flask/json")
print(r.json()['releases'].keys())
will print:
dict_keys(['0.1', '0.10', '0.10.1', '0.11', '0.11.1', '0.12', '0.12.1', '0.12.2', '0.12.3', '0.12.4', '0.2', '0.3', '0.3.1', '0.4', '0.5', '0.5.1', '0.5.2', '0.6', '0.6.1', '0.7', '0.7.1', '0.7.2', '0.8', '0.8.1', '0.9', '1.0', '1.0.1', '1.0.2'])
you can grep the result of your pip list
-> % pip list | grep 'beautifulsoup4'
beautifulsoup4 (4.4.1)
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