pip_package_info – pip package information

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pip_package_info – pip package information

New in version 2.8.


Synopsis

  • Return information about installed pip packages

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • The requested pip executables must be installed on the target.

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments

clients

list

Default:

["pip"]

A list of the pip executables that will be used to get the packages. They can be supplied with the full path or just the executable name, i.e `pip3.7`.



Examples

- name: Just get the list from default pip
  pip_package_info:

- name: get the facts for default pip, pip2 and pip3.6
  pip_package_info:
    clients: ['pip', 'pip2', 'pip3.6']

- name: get from specific paths (virtualenvs?)
  pip_package_info:
    clients: '/home/me/projec42/python/pip3.5'

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key Returned Description

packages

dictionary

always

a dictionary of installed package data


python

dictionary

always

A dictionary with each pip client which then contains a list of dicts with python package information


Sample:

{'packages': {'pip': {'Babel': [{'name': 'Babel', 'source': 'pip', 'version': '2.6.0'}], 'Flask': [{'name': 'Flask', 'source': 'pip', 'version': '1.0.2'}], 'Flask-SQLAlchemy': [{'name': 'Flask-SQLAlchemy', 'source': 'pip', 'version': '2.3.2'}], 'Jinja2': [{'name': 'Jinja2', 'source': 'pip', 'version': '2.10'}]}}}




Status

Authors

  • Matthew Jones (@matburt)
  • Brian Coca (@bcoca)
  • Adam Miller (@maxamillion)

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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.8/modules/pip_package_info_module.html