Today I wanna talk about a neat way I just discovered to find out which python packages present on my system or virtualenv are outdated. To find out, type the following in your terminal:
pip list --outdated
This will display an output similar to one shown below:
Then you can proceed to update the packages as per your needs. For example we can update virtualenv package as follows:
pip install --upgrade virtualenv
Security Updates
After finding out about the above feature, I wanted to find out if there was a way to find out about only the security updates available for the installed packages. Then I found out about safety.
Safety checks your installed dependencies for known security vulnerabilities. It uses the open Python vulnerability database Safety DB.
To install it, type the following in your terminal:
pip install safety
Then to check the installed packages for known vulnerabilities, run the below command:
safety check
This will output the packages with known vulnerabilities similar to the one shown below:
Then you can proceed to update the packages with security updates by using commands such as:
pip install --upgrade django
So that’s it for today’s "Today I Learned" post.