Piplexed

Find outdated packages installed with pipx or uv

Piplexed is a command line tool to identify outdated python packages, installed from PyPI, via pipx or uv (using the uv tool command).

Documentation: https://aj-white.github.io/piplexed/

⛳ Table of Contents

• Usage
• Installation
• Why piplexed ?
• Caveats
• License

🔧 Usage

Show Outdated Packages (Tools)

Ignores prelease and dev releases by default.

Installed with Pipx

piplexed list --outdated

Installed with uv

piplexed list --outdated --tool uv

Show outdated packages (include pre or dev releases)

Installed with pipx

piplexed list --outdated --pre

Installed with uv

piplexed list --outdated --pre --tool uv

List Installed Packages

With pipx

piplexed list

Outputs similar information to pipx list, albeit minus the names of the binaries, in a rich table format.

piplexed list --tree

An optional tree flag can be passed for a tree view (less useful if there are a lot of packages)

With UV

piplexed list --tool uv

👷‍♀️ Installation

Piplexed is designed to be installed globally via pipx or uv.

To install piplexed:

pipx install piplexed

or

uv tool install piplexed

Alternatively you can run it wihtout installation, supplying the required arguments shown below

pipx run -- piplexed <ARGS>

or

uv tool run piplexed <ARGS>

❓ Why piplexed

The name piplexed is a play on words, it contains the letters for pipx and I was also mildly perplexed trying to find a simpler way to identify outdated pipx installed packages, only to discover it didn't exist. Put the two together and well.... you get the idea (naming things is hard after all!). For a longer answer see the documentation.

🩹 Caveats

Piplexed is a project that I built for my workflow, but it may not work for everyone.

It is only intended to work for packages that are installed from PyPI, so will not work for local packages or git/url etc.

📝 License

Piplexed is distributed under the terms of the MIT license.