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

• This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
• This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

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

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