Listing installed python site-packages? [duplicate]

Question

from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()

Returns: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages

import sys; print sys.path

Returns: ['', '/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Django-1.1.1-py2.6.egg', '/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pip-0.6.3-py2.6.egg', '/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/TRML2PDF-1.0-py2.6.egg', '/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django_threaded_multihost-1.3_3-py2.6.egg',...............

But how to list the "importable name" from the site-packages installed? E.g: (before import results) django, pip, trm2pdf....

Thanks.

Answer 1

pip is the one for the job, as it is a tool for installing and managing Python packages. After install you have to execute:

pip freeze

That will output the packages and version information in pips requirements format (can be used later to install those packages with one command). The format of the output is like:

querystring-parser==1.0
raven==1.4.6
requests==0.14.2
scipy==0.10.1