Pip regular expression search

Question

I need to find all packages on PyPI that match a particular regular expression:

^django-.*?admin.*$

Basically, the package nam

Answer 1

One approach is the above mentioned method that pipes the pip search results to grep. I recommend to use this if you want to use regex search once or rarely.

However if you need this feature regularly you should check out yip which is a package I wrote to accomplish regex search alongside other useful additions that pip's search can't do like displaying extra info(size, upload time, homepage or license) or colorizing the output for readability.