pipis 1.3.0

Somewhere between pip and pipsi

PIPIS

Somewhere between pip and pipsi

"pipis" stands for "pip isolate"
and "pipi" is the french for "peepee" which is a fun name but pipi was already taken…

Actually it is a rewrite of pipsi but with venv instead of virtualenv.

What does it do?

Pipis is a wrapper around venv and pip which installs scripts provided by python packages into separate venvs to shield them from your system and each other.

It creates a venv in ~/.local/venvs/, update pip, installs the package, and links the package's scripts to ~/.local/bin/. These directory can be changed respectively through the environment variables PIPIS_VENVS and PIPIS_BIN.

Why not pipsi?

Because i do not care about Python 2, and virtualenv copies python's binaries while venv just symlink them (which i think is cleaner, but it still copies pip which is not clean…).

How to install

python3 -m venv ~/.local/venvs/pipis
source ~/.local/venvs/pipis/bin/activate
pip install -U pip
pip install pipis
deactivate
ln -s ~/.local/venvs/pipis/bin/pipis ~/.local/bin/pipis

How to update

pipis update pipis

How to uninstall

pipis uninstall pipis

How to use

Show help

$ pipis --help
Usage: pipis [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

Options:
  --help  Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  install
  list
  uninstall
  update

You can also invoke --help on each commands.

Install package(s)

$ pipis install ansible
Do you want to continue? [y/N]: y
Installing  [####################################]  100%

You can install multiple packages:

$ pipis install ansible ansible-lint jmespath
Do you want to continue? [y/N]: y
Installing  [####################################]  100%

Unattended install package(s)

$ pipis install --yes awscli
Installing  [####################################]  100%

Update package(s)

$ pipis update ansible
Do you want to continue? [y/N]: y
Updating  [####################################]  100%

You can also update all installed packages at once:

$ pipis update
Do you want to continue? [y/N]: y
Updating  [####################################]  100%

List installed packages

$ pipis list
Installed:
  - ansible
  - ansible-lint
  - awscli
  - bashate
  - docker-compose
  - flake8
  - jmespath
  - pipis
  - poetry
  - pylint
  - python-language-server
  - twine

Uninstall package(s)

$ pipis uninstall ansible
Do you want to continue? [y/N]: y
Removing  [####################################]  100%

Credits

• Armin Ronacher: the author of pipsi, for the inspiration
• Nicolas Karolak: myself, the author of pipis