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Where can you view package details on PyPI? (ani.social)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/programming

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Where can you view package details like dependencies and package size on PyPI like on npm?

For example, when I look at React's page on npm, I can see that it has 0 dependencies and an unpacked size of 237kB.

On the other hand, when I visit Flask's page on PyPI, I can't seem to find it's dependencies even after clicking on project details.

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[–] Mniot 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You haven't missed anything; there isn't any such place. There's a bunch of suggestions on how you could patch such a thing together StackOverflow: Is there a way to list pip dependencies/requirements?. Basically either running pip or querying the PyPI API to discover transitive dependencies. Sounds like a fun little programming project! 😀

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sounds like pain.

Thanks anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Python deps can be dynamic, so it can be necessary to download the package and execute code just to find out.

Would be nice to see a resource that lists out the statically defined ones, though. Perhaps that'd pressure the dynamic ones to change -- it's a cause for some of the notorious pain of Python packaging.