How to list all installed packages and their versions in Python?

Question

Is there a way in Python to list all installed packages and their versions?

I know I can go inside python/Lib/site-packages and see what files and direc

Answer 1

Here's a way to do it using PYTHONPATH instead of the absolute path of your python libs dir:

for d in `echo "${PYTHONPATH}" | tr ':' '\n'`; do ls "${d}"; done

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[ 10:43 Jonathan@MacBookPro-2 ~/xCode/Projects/Python for iOS/trunk/Python for iOS/Python for iOS ]$ for d in `echo "$PYTHONPATH" | tr ':' '\n'`; do ls "${d}"; done
libpython2.7.dylib pkgconfig          python2.7
BaseHTTPServer.py      _pyio.pyc              cgitb.pyo              doctest.pyo            htmlentitydefs.pyc     mimetools.pyc          plat-mac               runpy.py               stringold.pyc          traceback.pyo
BaseHTTPServer.pyc     _pyio.pyo              chunk.py               dumbdbm.py             htmlentitydefs.pyo     mimetools.pyo          platform.py            runpy.pyc              stringold.pyo          tty.py
BaseHTTPServer.pyo     _strptime.py           chunk.pyc              dumbdbm.pyc            htmllib.py             mimetypes.py           platform.pyc           runpy.pyo              stringprep.py          tty.pyc
Bastion.py             _strptime.pyc          chunk.pyo              dumbdbm.pyo            htmllib.pyc            mimetypes.pyc          platform.pyo           sched.py               stringprep.pyc         tty.pyo
Bastion.pyc            _strptime.pyo          cmd.py
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