Ferrum 🜜

Ferrum is a lightweight, cross-platform Python project package manager (PPPM).
Install or uninstall Python packages from your project with a single line of code.

Features

• Install multiple packages silently
• Version pinning support
• Uninstall with a single command
• Cross-platform: Linux, macOS, Windows
• Simple usage: ferrum.forge() and ferrum.purge()

Usage

Install packages

import ferrum

# Install latest versions
ferrum.forge(["numpy", "scipy"])

# Install specific versions
ferrum.forge(["numpy==1.26.0", "scipy==1.10.1"])
ferrum.forge({"numpy": "1.26.0", "scipy": "1.10.1"})

Uninstall packages

import ferrum

ferrum.purge(["numpy", "scipy"])

Verbose mode

Show pip errors if install/uninstall fails:

ferrum.forge(["numpy==1.26.0"], verbose=True)
ferrum.purge(["numpy"], verbose=True)

Summary mode

Show the user a summary of installed packages after install:

ferrum.forge(["numpy"], summary=True)

This produces output in this format:

Forging numpy...
Forge summary:
  numpy: success
Purging numpy...
Purge summary:
  numpy: success

Contact

• GitHub Issues: Ferrum Issues
• Author: literal-gargoyle