pip freeze shows me the packages installed, but how do I check against pypi which ones are outdated?
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Since version 1.3, pip features a new command:
$ pip list --outdated
requests (Current: 1.1.0 Latest: 1.2.0)See this post for more information.
Thing is, I never upgrade all packages. I upgrade only what I need, because projects may break.
Because there was no easy way to upgrade package by package and update the requirements.txt file, I wrote pip-upgrader which also updates the versions in your requirements.txt file for the packages chosen (or all packages).
Installation
pip install pip-upgraderUsage
Activate your virtualenv (important, because it will also install the new versions of upgraded packages in the current virtualenv).
cd into your project directory, then run:
pip-upgradeAdvanced usage
If the requirements are placed in a non-standard location, send them as arguments:
pip-upgrade path/to/requirements.txtIf you already know what package you want to upgrade, simply send them as arguments:
pip-upgrade -p django -p celery -p dateutilIf you need to upgrade to pre-release / post-release version, add --prerelease argument to your command.
Full disclosure: I wrote this package.
0Perhaps pip-tools, available at , might help you achieve what you want?
An example from the README:
$ pip-review --interactive
requests==0.14.0 available (you have 0.13.2)
Upgrade now? [Y]es, [N]o, [A]ll, [Q]uit y
...
redis==2.6.2 available (you have 2.4.9)
Upgrade now? [Y]es, [N]o, [A]ll, [Q]uit n
rq==0.3.2 available (you have 0.3.0)
Upgrade now? [Y]es, [N]o, [A]ll, [Q]uit y
...Use this pip fork:
Which does exactly what you want using this command:
$ pip list --outdatedSimple output:
pip list --outdatedSee also docs on pip list --outdated option.
Pretty output:
pip install pip-check
pip-checkSimilar to pip list --outdated but updates a requirements.txt file:
pur -r requirements.txt
PyPi:
GitHub:
Or you can
pip list --oList installed packages, including editables. pip list
