community.general.pip_package_info – pip package information

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.1).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.pip_package_info.

Synopsis

  • Return information about installed pip packages

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • The requested pip executables must be installed on the target.

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
clients
list / elements=path
Default:
["pip"]
A list of the pip executables that will be used to get the packages. They can be supplied with the full path or just the executable name, i.e `pip3.7`.

Examples

- name: Just get the list from default pip
  community.general.pip_package_info:

- name: Get the facts for default pip, pip2 and pip3.6
  community.general.pip_package_info:
    clients: ['pip', 'pip2', 'pip3.6']

- name: Get from specific paths (virtualenvs?)
  community.general.pip_package_info:
    clients: '/home/me/projec42/python/pip3.5'

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key Returned Description
packages
dictionary
always
a dictionary of installed package data
python
dictionary
always
A dictionary with each pip client which then contains a list of dicts with python package information

Sample:
{'packages': {'pip': {'Babel': [{'name': 'Babel', 'source': 'pip', 'version': '2.6.0'}], 'Flask': [{'name': 'Flask', 'source': 'pip', 'version': '1.0.2'}], 'Flask-SQLAlchemy': [{'name': 'Flask-SQLAlchemy', 'source': 'pip', 'version': '2.3.2'}], 'Jinja2': [{'name': 'Jinja2', 'source': 'pip', 'version': '2.10'}]}}}


Authors

  • Matthew Jones (@matburt)
  • Brian Coca (@bcoca)
  • Adam Miller (@maxamillion)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/pip_package_info_module.html