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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"pipdeptree workaround effort","articleBody":"\"pip inspect\" retunrs json presentation od the distribution\r\n\r\njson past work\r\nhttps://github.com/winpython/winpython/issues/850\r\n\r\n````\r\ndef get_official_description(name):\r\n    \"\"\"Extract package Summary description from pypi.org\"\"\"\r\n    from winpython import utils\r\n    this = normalize(name)\r\n    this_len = len(this)\r\n    pip_ask = ['pip', 'search', this, '--retries', '0']\r\n    if len(this)\u003c2:  # don't ask stupid things\r\n        return ''\r\n    try:\r\n        #  .run work when .popen fails when no internet\r\n        pip_res = (utils.exec_run_cmd(pip_ask)+'\\n').splitlines()\r\n        pip_filter = [l for l in pip_res if this + \" (\" ==\r\n                      normalize(l[:this_len])+l[this_len:this_len+2]]\r\n        pip_desc = (pip_filter[0][len(this)+1:]).split(\" - \", 1)[1] \r\n        return pip_desc.replace(\"://\", \" \")\r\n    except:\r\n        return ''\r\n\r\n````","author":{"url":"https://github.com/stonebig","@type":"Person","name":"stonebig"},"datePublished":"2022-08-08T12:40:36.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":15},"url":"https://github.com/1100/winpython/issues/1100"}