PKGINFO(1)

📦 version 1.12.1.2, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 pkginfo — print metadata for one or more Python package distributions 💖

okay bestie, welcome to PKGINFO(1), a manual page from the User Commands corner of the universe, and it's literally here to hand you the ✨metadata✨ of your Python packages. no cap. let's get into it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

pkginfo — print metadata for one or more Python package distributions 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

pkginfo [options] path ...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Print the metadata for one or more Python package distributions. that's it. that's the whole vibe. ✨

now, each path entry you hand over can be one of these four things, and yes you have to actually know which one you've got, iykyk:

  • a source distribution: in this case, path should point to an existing archive file (.tar.gz, .tar.bz2, or .zip) as generated by setup.py sdist. 🍓
  • a binary distribution: in this case, path should point to an existing archive file (.egg) 🥚
  • a "develop" checkout: in this case, path should point to a directory initialized via setup.py develop (under setuptools). the classic main character move tbh
  • an installed package: in this case, path should be the importable name of the package. so like, the name you'd actually import. periodt 💅

👑 OPTIONS 👑

so many little switches, and every single one of them is iconic in its own way:

  • -h, --help — show help message and exit. the "help me help you" button 🫶
  • -m METADATA_VERSION, --metadata-version=METADATA_VERSION — Override metadata version 🔥
  • -f FIELDS, --field=FIELDS — Specify an output field (repeatable). yep, you can stack this one, go off 💅
  • -d DOWNLOAD_URL_PREFIX, --download-url-prefix=DOWNLOAD_URL_PREFIX — Download URL prefix 🌈
  • --simple — Output as simple key-value pairs ✨
  • -s, --skip — Skip missing values in simple output 🙈
  • -S, --no-skip — Don't skip missing values in simple output. the opposite energy 💀
  • --single — Output delimited values 🎀
  • --item-delim=ITEM_DELIM — Delimiter for fields in single-line output ✂️
  • --sequence-delim=SEQUENCE_DELIM — Delimiter for multi-valued fields 🧚
  • --csv — Output as CSV 📊
  • --ini — Output as INI 🧾

🔍 SEE ALSO 🔍

The full documentation for pkginfo is available in /usr/share/doc/python-pkginfo-doc/html — but only if the python-pkginfo-doc package is installed. so check first, bestie, don't come for me if that folder's not there 😭

okay that's the whole page!! go print some metadata, you absolute legend 👑✨

this lil masterpiece is pkginfo, dated March 2018, and it lives at PKGINFO(1) in the manuals. mwah, slay, bye 💖🦋🎀

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