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Check for package updates on PyPI (works best in pip+virtualenv) (Python recipe) by migonzalvar
Forked from Recipe 577708 (Upgrade to Python3)
ActiveState Code (http://code.activestate.com/recipes/579030/)

Pip has an option to upgrade a package (_pip install -U_), however it always downloads sources even if there is already a newest version installed. If you want to check updates for all installed packages then some scripting is required.

This script checks if there is a newer version on PyPI for every installed package. It only prints information about available version and doesn't do any updates. Example output:

distribute 0.6.15                        0.6.16 available
Baker 1.1                                up to date
Django 1.3                               up to date
ipython 0.10.2                           up to date
gunicorn 0.12.1                          0.12.2 available
pyprof2calltree 1.1.0                    up to date
profilestats 1.0.2                       up to date
mercurial 1.8.3                          up to date
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#!/usr/bin/env python3

import xmlrpc.client
import pip

pypi = xmlrpc.client.ServerProxy('http://pypi.python.org/pypi')
for dist in pip.get_installed_distributions():
    available = pypi.package_releases(dist.project_name)
    if not available:
        # Try to capitalize pkg name
        available = pypi.package_releases(dist.project_name.capitalize())
        
    if not available:
        msg = 'no releases at pypi'
    elif available[0] != dist.version:
        msg = '{} available'.format(available[0])
    else:
        msg = 'up to date'
    pkg_info = '{dist.project_name} {dist.version}'.format(dist=dist)
    print('{pkg_info:40} {msg}'.format(pkg_info=pkg_info, msg=msg))
Tags: pip, pypi, virtualenv

2 comments

Paul Moore 9 years, 1 month ago  # | flag

pip list --outdated does what you're doing here, I think...

migonzalvar (author) 9 years, 1 month ago  # | flag

Sure! You are absolutely right, documentation is very clear.

Thank you.