Find which version of package is installed with pip

Question

Using pip, is it possible to figure out which version of a package is currently installed?

I know about pip install XYZ --upgrade but I am wondering if

Answer 1

You can use the grep command to find out.

pip show |grep Version

Example:

pip show urllib3|grep Version

will show only the versions.

Metadata-Version: 2.0
Version: 1.12