By Vasudev Ram
I was checking out the help for Python's pip tool (an installation tool for Python packages), and came across its search option.
The search option of the pip command lets you search PyPI, the Python Package Index.
I tried it out with a couple of searches, for the terms bottle (to get info on more PyPI packages related to 1) the Bottle Python web microframework (which I had blogged about a while ago), and 2) PDF, which is one of my areas of interest.
Here are the results of those two pip searches of PyPI:
c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages>pip -v -v -v search bottle
bottle - Fast and simple WSGI-framework for small web-
applications.
INSTALLED: 0.11.6 (latest)
bottlenose - A Python hook into the Amazon.com Product
Advertising API
Bottleneck - Fast NumPy array functions written in Cython
mimerender - RESTful HTTP Content Negotiation for Flask,
Bottle, web.py and webapp2 (Google App Engine)
bottle-cork - Authentication/Authorization library for Bottle
pasttle - Simple pastebin on top of bottle.
bottle-websocket - WebSockets for bottle
bottle-hotqueue - FIFO Queue for Bottle built upon HotQueue
Bottle-DebugToolbar - A port of the Django Debug Toolbar to Bottle
bottle-haml - UNKNOWN
macaron - Simple object-relational mapper for SQLite3,
includes plugin for Bottle web framework
bottle-servefiles - A reusable app that serves static files for bottle
apps
bottle-sqlalchemy - SQLAlchemy integration for Bottle.
bottle-mongodb - MongoDB integration for Bottle
flaskle - bottle-like utility decorators for flask
bottle-redis - Redis integration for Bottle.
bottle-pystache - Bottle Pystache template wrappers
bottle-tornado-websocket - WebSockets for bottle
BottleRack - BottleRack Markdown HTML Server
Gluino - port of web2py libs to bottle, flask, pyramid,
tornado (includes copy of modules from the web2py
framework)
bottle-request - Plugin to give bottle a 'stateless' request object
bottle-sqlite - SQLite3 integration for Bottle.
bottle-renderer - Renderer plugin for bottle
bottle-memcache - Memcache integration for Bottle.
bottle-web2pydal - Web2py Dal integration for Bottle.
Bottle-SSLify - Force SSL on any Bottle app.
bottle-werkzeug - Werkzeug integration for Bottle.
bottle-pycassa - Bottle plugin for Cassandra/Pycassa
bottle_cql - CQL integration for Bottle.
bottle-extras - Meta package to install the bottle plugin
collection.
bn - Lightweight profiling tool to detect performance
BottleNecks in Python code.
bottle-agamemnon - Agamemnon integration for bottle
bottle-flash - flash plugin for bottle
bottle-tornadosocket - WebSockets for bottle
bottle-mysql - MySQL integration for Bottle.
bottle-pgsql - PgSQL integration for Bottle
c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages>
c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages>pip -v -v -v search pdf
mwlib.rl - generate pdfs from mediawiki markup
zopyx.convert - A Python interface to XSL-FO libraries (Conversion
HTML to PDF, RTF, DOCX, WML and ODT)
slc.publications - A content type to store and parse pdf publications
pdfminer - PDF parser and analyzer
zopyx.convert2 - A Python interface for the conversion of HTML to
PDF, RTF, DOCX, WML and ODT) - belongs to
zopyx.smartprintng.core
pisa - PDF generator using HTML and CSS
collective.pdfpeek - A Plone 4 product that generates image thumbnail
previews of PDF files stored on ATFile based
objects.
WeasyPrint - WeasyPrint converts web documents to PDF.
rst2pdf - Convert restructured text to PDF via reportlab.
pdfserenitynow - Create TIFs and JPGs from crappy PDFs
collective.sendaspdf - An open source product for Plone to download or
email a page seen by the user as a PDF file.
Products.SmartPrintNG - Produce & Publish for Plone - Conversion of Plone
content to PDF, RTS, ODT, DOCX and WML
wc.pageturner - A Plone product that provides the PDF viewer
FlexPaper.
PyX - Python package for the generation of PostScript
and PDF files
PollyReports - Band-oriented PDF report generation from database
query
relatorio - A templating library able to output odt and pdf
files
pyPdf - PDF toolkit
wildcard.pdfpal - PDF Thumbnail generation, OCR indexing and extra
views integrated with plone.app.async
pdfminer3k - PDF parser and analyzer
pdfparanoia - pdf watermark remover library for academic papers
template2pdf - Renders Django/Jinja2 templates into PDF.
ftw.book - Produce books with Plone and export them in a high
quality PDF.
collective.pdfjs - pdf.js integration for Plone
ftw.pdfgenerator - A library for generating PDF representations of
Plone objects with LaTeX.
django-wkhtmltopdf - Converts html to PDF using
http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/.
TableFactory - Easily create HTML, spreadsheet, or PDF tables
from common Python data sources
paPyro - A PDF report generator written in Python
pdfnup - Layout multiple pages per sheet of a PDF document.
pdfdocument - Wrapper for ReportLab which allows easy creation
of PDF documents.
xhtml2pdf - PDF generator using HTML and CSS
ServPDF - ServPDF is a webbased Microsoft Office to PDF
Converter
pdfcrowd - A client for Pdfcrowd API.
pdfrecycle - create a PDF file by composing pages from other
PDF files.
metapdf - A lightweight PDF library optimized for metadata
extraction and insertion
tex - Convert LaTeX or TeX source to PDF or DVI, and
escape strings for LaTeX.
pdfkit - Wkhtmltopdf python wrapper to convert html to pdf
using the webkit rendering engine and qt
eea.converter - SVG, PNG, PDF converters using external tools as
ImageMagick
pieberry-library-assistant - A program to download pdf documents from public
websites, and catalogue them in BibTeX format
InvoiceGenerator - Library to generate PDF invoice.
pdfserver - Pdfserver is a webservice that offers common PDF
operations like joining documents, selecting pages
or "n pages on one".
rputils - An application for dice rolling and reading PDF
files.
diffpy.pdfgui - GUI for PDF simulation and structure refinement.
pyf.components.consumers.rmlpdfwriter - PyF component RML-Based PDF Writer based
on
Z3C.RML and Genshi
django-xhtml2pdf - A Django app to generate pdfs from templates
aws.pdfbook - Download Plone content views as PDF
pdfquery - Concise and friendly PDF scraper using JQuery or
XPath selectors.
OPAF - Open PDF Analysis Framework
TecUtils - Various utilities for database and config files
use. Text to Pdf converter
Products.PDFtoOCR - PDFtoOCR does OCR processing on PDF documents. The
text from OCR is used in the search results.
Flask-WeasyPrint - Make PDF in your Flask app with WeasyPrint.
pdfmerge - Command-line PDF utility.
ftwbook.graphicblock - Addon for `ftw.book` providing a graphics block
for including PDF documents in the book.
pyf.components.consumers.ooowriter - py3o-powered OpenOffice.org ODT Writer for
PyF
Framework with support for rendering (pdf, html,
doc, docx, etc) on py3o renderservers.
pyjon.reports - Pyjon.Reports is a module bridging z3c.rml, genshi
and pypdf together to provide a simple mean of
creating templated pdf documents in python.
django-pdf - A Django app for managing and processing PDF
documents.
gametex-django-print - Generate PDFs from GameTeX in Django
collective.pdftransform - A set of portal transform to change pdf into
images
pdftools.pdfposter - Scale and tile PDF images/pages to print on
multiple pages.
django-webodt - ODF template handler and odt to html, pdf, doc,
etc converter
slate - Extract text from PDF documents easily.
dinbrief - PDF renderer for DIN 5008 and DIN 676 compliant
letters and invoices
raptus.princexml - Provides a simple bridge to create PDFs from HTML
views using PrinceXML
wallaby-plugin-pdfgenerator - This package provides a PDF generator for wallaby.
z3c.pdftemplate - PDF Template
wkhtmltopdf - Simple python wrapper for wkhtmltopdf
diffpy.pdffit2 - PDFfit2 - real space structure refinement program.
pdfid_PL - A Python module to analyze and sanitize PDF files,
based on Didier Stevens' PDFiD
pypdflib - Pango Cairo based Python PDF Library
pdf2zip - pdf conversion utility
pyf.components.consumers.xhtmlpdfwriter - XHTML-Based PDF Writer for PyF Framewo
rk based on
PISA and Genshi
pdf-link-checker - Reports broken hyperlinks in PDF documents
scrape-highlighted - A script to scrape highlighted text from a pdf
[Mac only].
pdfgrid - Add a grid on top of all pages of a PDF document.
jag-tipdf - Combines plain text and images into a single PDF.
HWFormatter - Format submitted homework assignments from
Blackboard into PDFs
collective.pdfLeadImage - Automatically creates contentleadimage from pdf
cover
pdfcat - pdf concatenation tool
prynt - Generating HTML/PDF directly from your console.
pdfsplit - Split a PDF file or rearrange its pages into a new
PDF file.
pdfrw - Pure Python PDF file reader/writer library
agenda2pdf - Simple script which generates a book agenda file
in PDF format, ready to be printed or to be loaded
on a ebook reader
stapler - Manipulate PDF documents from the command line
trml2pdf - Tiny RML2PDF is a tool to easily create PDF
document without programming. It can be used
as a Python library or as a standalone binary. It
converts a RML, an XML dialect that lets you
define the precise appearance of a printed
document, to a PDF. You can use your existing
tools to generate an input file that exactly
describes the layout of a printed document, and
RML2PDF converts it into PDF. RML is a much
more powerfull and flexible alternative to XSL:FO.
The executable read a RML file to the standard
input and output a PDF file to the standard
output.
wsgitrml2pdf - wsgitrml2pdf is wsgi middleware to convert trml
text to pdf.
fpdf.py - Simple PDF generation for Python (FPDF PHP port)
DXF-Converter - Converts Autocad Files v11 and v12 to pdf
JagPDF - A library for generating PDF documents.
pdftools.pdfjoin - Join PDF documents into a single document.
collective.calameo - Publish your PDF document in Plone with Calameo
PyPDF2 - PDF toolkit
PDFTron PDFNet SDK for Python - A top notch PDF library for PDF rendering,
conversion, content extraction, etc
cubicweb-pdfexport - export any page as a pdf document
fpdf - Simple PDF generation for Python
pywkher - wkhtmltopdf for Python on Heroku
PyBooklet - Converts PDFs to booklets
pyFPDF - generate pdf on python
origapy - A Python module to clean PDF files by disabling
active content (javascript, launch, etc), using
the Ruby Origami PDF parser.
pdftable - pdftable: extract tables from PDF files
django-latex - Django application to generate latex/pdf files.
ttfpdf - TrueType support PDF file Generator
pdf2tiff - A PDF to TIFF converter for Mac OS X.
cloudooo.handler.pdf - Python Package to handler PDF documents
pdfbox - JCC wrapper for Apache PDFBox
buzzweb2pdf - An Open Source tool to convert HTML documentation
with an index page into a single PDF.
ServPDF and ServPDF-OO - Web based Office to PDF Converter Server for
Microsoft Office and OpenOffice
genenga - Generate Nengajo(Japanese new year card) pdf from
address list.
As you can see from the output above, a lot of Python packages were found for those two search terms. In the search for the term "bottle", not all of the packages found were actually related to the Bottle framework, but most were.
The search for "PDF" resulted in many results, some of which I've blogged about in the past, such as pisa/xhtmltopdf, PyPDF, pdfdocument, wkhtml2pdf, and others, and many that I didn't know of before.
So it looks like the pip search command is a useful tool.
As for why I used "pip -v -v -v", see "pip --help" :-)
- Vasudev Ram - Dancing Bison Enterprises
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