- Pip version: 10
- Python version: any
- Operating system: any
Description:
This is a feature request, related to #3568 and 4824, but made more necessary by the privatization of pip's internals: let pip show gain a --json flag (or --format=(humanreadable|json)) (also handling pip show --files) that outputs the result as json (or whatever other format you deem suitable, but pip list already has --format=json (hence the suggestion of --format=json instead of --json above). Otherwise, it becomes necessary to either parse the output of pip show, or to just copy-paste pip's implementation, in order to access the same metadata.
What I've run:
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Description:
This is a feature request, related to #3568 and 4824, but made more necessary by the privatization of pip's internals: let
pip showgain a--jsonflag (or--format=(humanreadable|json)) (also handlingpip show --files) that outputs the result as json (or whatever other format you deem suitable, but pip list already has--format=json(hence the suggestion of--format=jsoninstead of--jsonabove). Otherwise, it becomes necessary to either parse the output of pip show, or to just copy-paste pip's implementation, in order to access the same metadata.What I've run:
e.g.