py_dep_summary

Tiny project that holds scripts for analyzing the dependencies of a Python project. This shell script will generate a CSV with the name, version, license, and URL of all recursive dependencies of a given Python package.

This can be useful for checking whether a project has taken on any licenses that you want to avoid.

Requirements

This was built super fast and probably has too many dependencies. It assumes you have:

Anaconda distribution of Python 3 + conda command line utilities
Python package pip-licenses
R (with packages argaparse, data.table, and jsonlite)

Usage Example

Let's say you want to run this check on the project doppel-cli. To clone it to your laptop, run

mkdir -p ${HOME}/tmp/
pushd ${HOME}/tmp
    git clone git@github.com:jameslamb/doppel-cli.git
popd

cd over to wherever you've cloned the py_dep_summary repo, then run:

# Path to a project with a setup.py file
PKG=${HOME}/tmp/doppel-cli

# Path to write output to
OUT_FILE=$(pwd)/licenses.json

./check_licenses.sh ${PKG} ${OUT_FILE}

This will generate the file licenses.json. To turn it into a CSV, run

Rscript make_csv.R --file ${OUT_FILE}
open dependencies.csv

This will generate a file dependencies.csv and open it with your default viewer.

jameslamb/py_dep_summary

py_dep_summary

Requirements

Usage Example