pipdate is a collection of small pip update helpers. The command
pipdate
# or python3.9 -m pipdateupdates all your pip-installed packages. (Only works on Unix.)
There's a Python interface as well that can be used for update notifications. This
import pipdate
pipdate.check("matplotlib", "0.4.5")will print
This can, for example, be used by package authors to notify users of upgrades of their own packages.
If you guard the check with
import pipdate
if pipdate.needs_checking("matplotlib"):
pipdate.check("matplotlib", "0.4.5")then it will be performed at most every k seconds, where k is specified
in the config file $HOME/.config/pipdate/config.ini, e.g., once a day
[DEFAULT]
secondsbetweenchecks = 86400
pipdate is available from the Python Package Index, so simply type
pip install pipdate
To run the pipdate unit tests, check out this repository and type
pytest
This software is published under the GPLv3 license.