Question

from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()

Returns: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages

import sys; print sys.path

Returns: ['', '/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Django-1.1.1-py2.6.egg', '/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pip-0.6.3-py2.6.egg', '/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/TRML2PDF-1.0-py2.6.egg', '/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django_threaded_multihost-1.3_3-py2.6.egg',...............

But how to list the “importable name” from the site-packages installed? E.g: (before import results) django, pip, trm2pdf....

Thanks.

Answer 1

Check out yolk.

Yolk is a Python command-line tool and library for obtaining information about packages installed by setuptools, easy_install and distutils (Python 2.5) and for querying PyPI (Python Package Index a.k.a. The Cheese Shop).