extraneous

Find extraneous pip packages not listed in your requirements.txt or as a sub-dependency.

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Install

$ pip install extraneous

Help

$ extraneous.py -h
usage: extraneous.py [-h] [--verbose] [--include paths] [--exclude names]
[--full]

Identifies packages that are installed but not defined in requirements files.
Prints the 'pip uninstall' command that removes these extraneous packages and
any non-common dependencies. Looks for packages matching '*requirements*.txt'
in the current working directory.

optional arguments:
-h, --help
    show this help message and exit
--verbose, -v
    Prints installed site-package folders and requirements files.
--include paths, -i paths
    Additional directories to look for '*requirements*.txt' files in.
--exclude names, -e names
    Package names to not consider extraneous. ['extraneous', 'pipdeptree',
     'pip', 'setuptools'] are not considered extraneous packages.
--full, -f
    Allows ['extraneous', 'pipdeptree', 'pip', 'setuptools'] as extraneous
     packages.

Example output

$ extraneous.py
extraneous packages:
        smbprotocol
uninstall via:
        pip uninstall -y smbprotocol cryptography dataclasses pyspnego

Testing

1. Clone the repo.
2. Setup and activate a new venv.
3. Install requirements.txt and test_requirements.txt into your venv.
4. Run $ python setup.py test.