Python and pip, list all versions of a package tha

Question

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.

Answer 1

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)

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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: [e-mail]
License: PSF or ZPL
Location: /usr/local/lib/python3.4/site-packages
Requires: 

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

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

Answer 6

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)