pip-check

pip-check gives you a quick overview of all installed packages and their update status. Under the hood it calls pip list --outdated --format=json and transforms it into a more user-friendly table.

pip-check also supports uv, or pip at any location. Pass the pip command using --cmd:

pip-check -c pip3
pip-check -c ".venv/bin/pip"
pip-check -c "uv pip"

Installation:

pip install pip-check

Or Install the last version that runs on Python 2.7 or 3.4:

pip install pip-check==2.5.2

Usage:

$ pip-check -h
usage: pip-check [options] [-- PIP_ARGS ...]

A quick overview of all installed packages and their update status. Supports `pip` or `uv pip`.

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -a, --ascii           Display as ASCII Table
  -c, --cmd PIP_CMD     The [uv] pip executable to run. E.g.: `/path/to/pip` or `uv pip`. Default: `pip`
  -l, --local           Show only virtualenv installed packages. (pip only)
  -r, --not-required    List only packages that are not dependencies of installed packages. (pip only)
  -f, --full-version    Show full version strings.
  -H, --hide-unchanged  Do not show "unchanged" packages.
  -u, --show-update     Show update instructions for updatable packages. (pip only)
  -U, --user            Show only user installed packages. (pip only)
  --version             Show the version of pip-check and exit.

Arguments after `--` are passed to `pip list` as they are, e.g. `pip-check -- --pre` to include pre-releases, or `pip-check -- --extra-index-url URL` to also check another index. With uv, use uv's
options, e.g. `-- --index URL`. They are also added to the --show-update command.

Pre-releases and other package indexes:

Everything after -- is passed to pip list unchanged, so pip-check can use any of pip's options:

pip-check -- --pre                                        # include pre-releases
pip-check -- --extra-index-url https://my.index/simple    # also check another index
pip-check -- --index-url https://mirror.example/simple    # check a mirror instead of PyPI
pip-check -c "uv pip" -- --index https://my.index/simple  # uv uses its own option names

The same arguments are added to the upgrade command that --show-update prints, so e.g. a listed pre-release actually gets installed. uv's pip list has no pre-release option, so --pre only works with pip.

pip's own configuration applies as well, so a pip.conf or environment variables such as PIP_PRE=1 or PIP_EXTRA_INDEX_URL work without --.

Local Development

pip-check uses uv for local development.

uv sync         # Create a .venv and install dependencies
uv build        # Build distribution packages

Releasing:

Releases are published to PyPI by GitHub Actions. Bump version in pyproject.toml, add the CHANGELOG entry, then push a matching tag:

$ git tag v3.3 && git push origin v3.3

The Publish workflow checks that the tag matches the project version, runs the full test suite and uploads the package using PyPI Trusted Publishing.

Testing:

Test against a variation of Python versions:

$ uv run nox

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