Where can you view package details on PyPI?
from Endmaker@ani.social to programming@programming.dev on 26 Mar 09:57
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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@programming.dev on 26 Mar 14:20 next collapse

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! 😀

Endmaker@ani.social on 26 Mar 14:36 collapse

Sounds like pain.

<img alt="sad Tama" src="https://ani.social/pictrs/image/9c351382-87f2-43b2-afcb-f462f13a2d65.webp">

Thanks anyway.

Kache@lemm.ee on 26 Mar 16:09 collapse

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.

ExperimentalGuy@programming.dev on 26 Mar 15:34 collapse

Don’t most of these projects have a requirements.txt? That would be my first thought when trying to find deps. Getting the size of a package is above my head.