Gluttony 0.1

A tool for find dependencies relationships among Python projects on PyPi

Gluttony is a tool for finding dependency relationships among Python prjects in PyPi, it is based on pip.

Installation

To install Gluttony

easy_install Gluttony

Usage

To know dependency relationships

gluttony <project name> --display-graph

For example: you want to know the dependency relationships of a Python project Sprox, then you can type:

gluttony sprox --display-graph

The result might looks like this:

Also, it also supports most of command of pip install, for example: you want to know the relations among TurboGears2 packages, here we type

gluttony -i http://www.turbogears.org/2.0/downloads/current/index tg.devtools --display-graph

The result:

Oops, the graph is a mess. I didn’t handle layout of graph. I have not time to finish it right now. Fortunately, if you want to get the relationships data in Python form, this tool also provide a pickle output. For example:

gluttony sprox --pickle sprox.pickle

Then you can use pickle.load for further processing.

Author

• Victor Lin (bornstub at gmail.com)

• Twitter: victorlin

• Blog: Victor’s Blog