How to retrieve pip requirements (freeze) within Python?

Question

I posted this question on the git issue tracker: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/2969

Can we have some manner of calling pip freeze/list within python, i.e. not a

Answer 1

It's not recommended to rely on a "private" function such as pip._internal.operatons. You can do the following instead:

import pkg_resources
env = dict(tuple(str(ws).split()) for ws in pkg_resources.working_set)