How to upgrade all Python packages with pip

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Is it possible to upgrade all Python packages at one time with pip  Note  that there is a feature request for this on the official issue tracker

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Here is a script that only updates the outdated packages.

import os, sys
from subprocess import check_output, call

file = check_output(["pip.exe",  "list", "--outdated", "--format=legacy"])
line = str(file).split()

for distro in line[::6]:
    call("pip install --upgrade " + distro, shell=True)

For a new version of pip that does not output as a legacy format (version 18+):

import os, sys
from subprocess import check_output, call

file = check_output(["pip.exe", "list", "-o", "--format=json"])
line = str(file).split()

for distro in line[1::8]:
    distro = str(distro).strip('"\",')
    call("pip install --upgrade " + distro, shell=True)

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Here is my variation on rbp s answer  which bypasses  quot editable quot  and development distributions  It shares two flaws of the original  it re-downloads and reinstalls unnecessarily  and an error on one package will prevent the upgrade of every package after that  pip freeze  sed -ne  s       p   xargs pip install -U --  Related bug reports  a bit disjointed after the migration from Bitbucket   https   github com pypa pip issues 49 https   github com pypa pip issues 59

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One line in PowerShell 5 1 with administrator rights  Python 3 6 5  and pip version 10 0 1  pip list -o --format json   ConvertFrom-Json   foreach  pip install    name -U --no-warn-script-location   It works smoothly if there are no broken packages or special wheels in the list

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for in a bat script call pip freeze  gt  requirements txt call powershell  quot  Get-Content requirements txt    ForEach-Object      -replace         gt        Set-Content requirements txt quot  call pip install -r requirements txt --upgrade

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This ought to be more effective  pip3 list -o   grep -v -i warning   cut -f1 -d      tr  quot   quot   quot  n quot    awk   if NR gt  3 print     cut -d    -f1   xargs -n1 pip3 install -U   pip list -o lists outdated packages  grep -v -i warning inverted match on warning to avoid errors when updating cut -f1 -d1    returns the first word - the name of the outdated package  tr  quot  n  r quot   quot   quot  converts the multiline result from cut into a single-line  space-separated list  awk   if NR gt  3 print   skips header lines cut -d    -f1 fetches the first column xargs -n1 pip install -U takes 1 argument from the pipe left of it  and passes it to the command to upgrade the list of packages

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Use  import pip pkgs    p key for p in pip get installed distributions    for pkg in pkgs      pip main   install    --upgrade   pkg    Or even  import pip commands     install    --upgrade   pkgs   commands extend  p key for p in pip get installed distributions     pip main commands   It works fast as it is not constantly launching a shell

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Use pipupgrade    pip install pipupgrade   pipupgrade --verbose --latest --yes  pipupgrade helps you upgrade your system  local or packages from a requirements txt file  It also selectively upgrades packages that don t break change  pipupgrade also ensures to upgrade packages present within multiple Python environments  It is compatible with Python  2 7   Python  3 4  and pip 9   pip 10   pip 18   pip 19    Note  I m the author of the tool

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Here s the code for updating all Python  3 packages  in the activated virtualenv  via pip  import pkg resources from subprocess import call  for dist in pkg resources working set      call  quot python3 -m pip install --upgrade  quot    dist project name  shell True

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This option seems to me more straightforward and readable   pip install -U  pip list --outdated   awk  NR gt 2  print  1        The explanation is that pip list --outdated outputs a list of all the outdated packages in this format    Package   Version Latest Type  --------- ------- ------ ----- fonttools 3 31 0  3 32 0 wheel urllib3   1 24    1 24 1 wheel requests  2 20 0  2 20 1 wheel   In the awk command  NR gt 2 skips the first two records  lines  and  print  1  selects the first word of each line  as suggested by SergioAraujo  I removed tail -n  3 since awk can indeed handle skipping records

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I ve been using pur lately  It s simple and to the point  It updates your requirements txt file to reflect the upgrades and you can then upgrade with your requirements txt file as usual     pip install pur     Successfully installed pur-4 0 1    pur Updated boto3  1 4 2 - gt  1 4 4 Updated Django  1 10 4 - gt  1 10 5 Updated django-bootstrap3  7 1 0 - gt  8 1 0 All requirements up-to-date     pip install --upgrade -r requirements txt Successfully installed Django-1 10 5

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This is a PowerShell solution for Python 3   pip3 list --outdated --format legacy   ForEach   pip3 install -U    split      0      And for Python 2   pip2 list --outdated --format legacy   ForEach   pip2 install -U    split      0      This upgrades the packages one by one  So a  pip3 check pip2 check   afterwards should make sure no dependencies are broken

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Sent through a pull-request to the pip folks  in the meantime use this pip library solution I wrote  from pip import get installed distributions from pip commands import install  install cmd   install InstallCommand    options  args   install cmd parse args  package project name                                         for package in                                         get installed distributions      options upgrade   True install cmd run options  args     Chuck this in a try except and print as wanted

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More Robust Solution For pip3  use this  pip3 freeze --local  sed -rn  s         t       t        echo  echo Processing  1      pip3 install -U  1 p   sh  For pip  just remove the 3s as such  pip freeze --local  sed -rn  s         t       t        echo  echo Processing  1      pip install -U  1 p   sh  OS X Oddity OS X  as of July 2017  ships with a very old version of sed  a dozen years old   To get extended regular expressions  use -E instead of -r in the solution above  Solving Issues with Popular Solutions This solution is well designed and tested1  whereas there are problems with even the most popular solutions   Portability issues due to changing pip command line features Crashing of xargs because of common pip or pip3 child process failures Crowded logging from the raw xargs output Relying on a Python-to-OS bridge while potentially upgrading it3  The above command uses the simplest and most portable pip syntax in combination with sed and sh to overcome these issues completely  Details of the sed operation can be scrutinized with the commented version2   Details  1  Tested and regularly used in a Linux 4 8 16-200 fc24 x86 64 cluster and tested on five other Linux Unix flavors   It also runs on Cygwin64 installed on Windows 10   Testing on iOS is needed   2  To see the anatomy of the command more clearly  this is the exact equivalent of the above pip3 command with comments    Match lines from pip s local package list output   that meet the following three criteria and pass the   package name to the replacement string in group 1     a  Do not start with invalid characters    b  Follow the rule of no white space in the package names    c  Immediately follow the package name with an equal sign sed  quot s         t       t        quot     Separate the output of package upgrades with a blank line sed  quot  sed echo quot     Indicate what package is being processed sed  quot  sed  echo Processing  1     quot     Perform the upgrade using just the valid package name sed  quot  sed  pip3 install -U  1 quot     Output the commands sed  quot  sed p quot     Stream edit the list as above   and pass the commands to a shell pip3 freeze --local   sed -rn  quot  sed quot    sh   3  Upgrading a Python or PIP component that is also used in the upgrading of a Python or PIP component can be a potential cause of a deadlock or package database corruption

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The shortest and easiest on Windows   pip freeze  gt  requirements txt  amp  amp  pip install --upgrade -r requirements txt  amp  amp  rm requirements txt

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You can use the following Python code  Unlike pip freeze  this will not print warnings and FIXME errors  For pip  lt  10 0 1  import pip from subprocess import call  packages    dist project name for dist in pip get installed distributions    call  pip install --upgrade         join packages   shell True    For pip    10 0 1  import pkg resources from subprocess import call  packages    dist project name for dist in pkg resources working set  call  pip install --upgrade         join packages   shell True

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The pip upgrade outdated does the job  According to its documentation  usage  pip upgrade outdated  -h   -3   -2   --pip cmd PIP CMD                               --serial   --parallel   --dry run   --verbose                               --version   Upgrade outdated python packages with pip   optional arguments    -h  --help         show this help message and exit   -3                 use pip3   -2                 use pip2   --pip cmd PIP CMD  use PIP CMD  default pip    --serial  -s       upgrade in serial  default    --parallel  -p     upgrade in parallel   --dry run  -n      get list  but don t upgrade   --verbose  -v      may be specified multiple times   --version          show program s version number and exit  Step 1  pip install pip-upgrade-outdated  Step 2  pip upgrade outdated

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The shortest and easiest I can find   pip install -U   pip freeze   cut -d    -f1    The   cmd  key allows you to wrap any shell command line  it returns its output

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As another answer here stated  pip freeze --local   grep -v    -e    cut -d   -f 1   xargs -n1 pip install -U  Is a possible solution  Some comments here  myself included  had issues with permissions while using this command  A little change to the following solved those for me  pip freeze --local   grep -v    -e    cut -d   -f 1   xargs -n1 sudo -H pip install -U  Note the added sudo -H which allowed the command to run with root permissions

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There isn t a built-in flag yet  but you can use  pip list --outdated --format freeze   grep -v    -e    cut -d   -f 1    xargs -n1 pip install -U   Note  there are infinite potential variations for this  I m trying to keep this answer short and simple  but please do suggest variations in the comments   In older version of pip  you can use this instead   pip freeze --local   grep -v    -e    cut -d   -f 1    xargs -n1 pip install -U   The grep is to skip editable   -e   package definitions  as suggested by  jawache   Yes  you could replace grep cut with sed or awk or perl or       The -n1 flag for xargs prevents stopping everything if updating one package fails  thanks  andsens

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One line in cmd   for  F  delims     i in   pip list --outdated --format legacy   do pip install -U  i   So a   pip check   afterwards should make sure no dependencies are broken

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I had the same problem with upgrading  Thing is  I never upgrade all packages  I upgrade only what I need  because project may break  Because there was no easy way for upgrading package by package  and updating the requirements txt file  I wrote this pip-upgrader which also updates the versions in your requirements txt file for the packages chosen  or all packages   Installation pip install pip-upgrader  Usage Activate your virtualenv  important  because it will also install the new versions of upgraded packages in current virtualenv   cd into your project directory  then run  pip-upgrade  Advanced usage If the requirements are placed in a non-standard location  send them as arguments  pip-upgrade path to requirements txt  If you already know what package you want to upgrade  simply send them as arguments  pip-upgrade -p django -p celery -p dateutil  If you need to upgrade to pre-release   post-release version  add --prerelease argument to your command  Full disclosure  I wrote this package

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This seemed to work for me    pip install -U   pip list --outdated   awk   printf  1 quot   quot      I used printf with a space afterwards to properly separate the package names

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Here is another way of doing with a script in Python  import pip  tempfile  contextlib  with tempfile TemporaryFile  w    as temp      with contextlib redirect stdout temp           pip main   list    -o        temp seek 0      for line in temp          pk   line split   0          print  -- gt  updating   pk    lt --           pip main   install    -U   pk

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From https   github com cakebread yolk    pip install -U  yolk -U   awk   print  1     uniq   However  you need to get yolk first    sudo pip install -U yolk

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One-liner version of Ramana s answer  python -c  import pip  subprocess   subprocess call  quot pip install -U  quot    d project name  shell 1  for d in pip get installed distributions

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Windows version after consulting the excellent documentation for FOR by Rob van der Woude  for  F  quot delims    quot   i in   pip freeze -l   do pip install -U  i

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Windows PowerShell solution pip freeze        split       0       pip install --upgrade

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If you want upgrade only packaged installed by pip  and to avoid upgrading packages that are installed by other tools  like apt  yum etc    then you can use this script that I use on my Ubuntu  maybe works also on other distros  - based on this post   printf  To update with pip  pip install -U  pip list --outdated 2 gt  dev null   gawk   print  1      while read  do pip show    REPLY   2 gt  dev null   grep  Location   usr local lib python2 7 dist-packages   gt  dev null  if          0     then printf     REPLY    fi  done  echo

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When using a virtualenv and if you just want to upgrade packages added to your virtualenv  you may want to do  pip install  pip freeze -l   cut --fields 1 -d   -  --upgrade

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Updating Python Packages On Windows Or Linux 1-Output a list of installed packages into a requirements file  requirements txt   pip freeze  gt  requirements txt  2- Edit requirements txt  and replace all          with     gt       Use the    Replace All    command in the editor  3 - Upgrade all outdated packages pip install -r requirements txt --upgrade  Source https   www activestate com resources quick-reads how-to-update-all-python-packages

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import os import pip from subprocess import call  check call  pip check list     pip    pip3   pip list      FNULL   open os devnull   w     for s pip in pip check list      try          check call  s pip   -h    stdout FNULL          pip list append s pip      except FileNotFoundError          pass   for dist in pip get installed distributions        for pip in pip list          call  quot  0  install --upgrade  quot  format pip    dist project name  shell True   I took Ramana s answer and made it pip3 friendly

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A pure Bash Z shell one-liner for achieving that  for p in   pip list -o --format freeze   do pip install -U   p       done  Or  in a nicely-formatted way  for p in   pip list -o --format freeze  do     pip install -U   p      done

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You can just print the packages that are outdated  pip freeze   cut -d   -f 1   xargs -n 1 pip search   grep -B2  LATEST

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You can try this  for i in   pip list   awk -F       print  1     do pip install --upgrade  i  done

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To upgrade all local packages  you could use pip-review     pip install pip-review   pip-review --local --interactive     pip-review is a fork of pip-tools  See pip-tools issue mentioned by  knedlsepp  pip-review package works but pip-tools package no longer works   pip-review works on Windows since version 0 5

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The following one-liner might prove of help   pip  gt  20 0  pip list --format freeze --outdated   sed  s      g    xargs -n1 pip install -U  Older Versions  pip list --format freeze --outdated   sed  s      g    xargs -n1 pip install -U   xargs -n1 keeps going if an error occurs  If you need more  quot fine grained quot  control over what is omitted and what raises an error you should not add the -n1 flag and explicitly define the errors to ignore  by  quot piping quot  the following line for each separate error    sed  s   lt First characters of the error gt       Here is a working example  pip list --format freeze --outdated   sed  s      g    sed  s   lt First characters of the first error gt         sed  s   lt First characters of the second error gt         xargs pip install -U

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The rather amazing yolk makes this easy  pip install yolk3k   Don t install  yolk   see https   github com cakebread yolk issues 35 yolk --upgrade  For more information on yolk  https   pypi python org pypi yolk 0 4 3 It can do lots of things you ll probably find useful

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to upgrade all of your pip default packages in your default python version just run the bottom python code in your terminal or command prompt  import subprocess import re   pkg list   subprocess getoutput  pip freeze    pkg list   pkg list split   n     new pkg      for i in pkg list      re findall r quot           quot   str i       new   re findall r quot           quot   str i   0      new pkg append new   for i in new pkg      print subprocess getoutput  pip install   str i    --upgrade

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The following works on Windows and should be good for others too    is whatever directory you re in  in the command prompt  For example  C  Users Username   Do   pip freeze  gt  requirements txt  Open the text file  replace the    with  gt    and execute    pip install -r requirements txt --upgrade  If you have a problem with a certain package stalling the upgrade  NumPy sometimes   just go to the directory      comment out the name  add a   before it  and run the upgrade again  You can later uncomment that section back  This is also great for copying Python global environments   Another way  I also like the pip-review method  py2   pip install pip-review    pip-review --local --interactive  py3   pip3 install pip-review    py -3 -m pip review --local --interactive  You can select  a  to upgrade all packages  if one upgrade fails  run it again and it continues at the next one

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This seems more concise   pip list --outdated   cut -d     -f1   xargs -n1 pip install -U   Explanation   pip list --outdated gets lines like these  urllib3  1 7 1  - Latest  1 15 1  wheel  wheel  0 24 0  - Latest  0 29 0  wheel    In cut -d     -f1  -d     sets  space  as the delimiter  -f1 means to get the first column    So the above lines becomes   urllib3 wheel   then pass them to xargs to run the command  pip install -U  with each line as appending arguments  -n1 limits the number of arguments passed to each command pip install -U to be 1

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Use  pip install -r  lt  pip freeze  --upgrade

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The below Windows cmd snippet does the following         Upgrades pip to latest version    Upgrades all outdated packages    For each packages being upgraded checks requirements txt for any version specifiers        echo off Setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion rem https   stackoverflow com questions 2720014   echo Upgrading pip    python -m pip install --upgrade pip echo   echo Upgrading packages    set upgrade count 0 pip list --outdated  gt  pip-upgrade-outdated txt for  F  skip 2 tokens 1 3 delims      i in  pip-upgrade-outdated txt  do       echo   gt   i     set package   i     set latest   j     set requirements  package       rem for each outdated package check for any version requirements      set dotest 1     for  F   r in    python requirements txt  do           if  dotest   1               call  substr    r   package   substr             rem check if a given line refers to a package we are about to upgrade              if    r  NEQ   substr                    rem check if the line contains more than just a package name                  if    r  NEQ   package                         rem set requirements to the contents of the line                      echo requirements    r  latest   latest                      set requirements   r                                   rem stop testing after the first instance found                  rem prevents from mistakenly matching  py  with  pylint    numpy  etc                  rem requirements txt must be structured with shorter names going first                 set dotest 0                                   rem pip install  requirements      pip install --upgrade  requirements      set  a  upgrade count  1      echo     if  upgrade count   0       echo All packages are up to date    else       type pip-upgrade-outdated txt    if   1  neq  -silent        echo      set  p temp   gt  Press Enter to exit       exit  b    substr rem string substition done in a separate subroutine - rem allows expand both variables in the substring syntax  rem replaces str search with an empty string  rem returns the result in the 3rd parameter  passed by reference from the caller  set str source  1 set str search  2 set str result  str source  str search    set    3  str result   rem echo  str source    str search    str result  exit  b

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Ramana s answer worked the best for me  of those here  but I had to add a few catches  import pip for dist in pip get installed distributions        if  site-packages  in dist location          try              pip call subprocess   pip    install    -U   dist key           except Exception  exc              print exc  The site-packages check excludes my development packages  because they are not located in the system site-packages directory  The try-except simply skips packages that have been removed from PyPI  To endolith  I was hoping for an easy pip install dist key  upgrade True   too  but it doesn t look like pip was meant to be used by anything but the command line  the docs don t mention the internal API  and the pip developers didn t use docstrings

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See all outdated packages   pip list --outdated --format columns   Install   sudo pip install pipdate   then type   sudo -H pipdate

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Use AWK update packages  pip install -U   pip freeze   awk -F        print  1     Windows PowerShell update foreach  p in   pip freeze    pip install -U  p Split  quot   quot   0

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If you are on macOS   make sure you have Homebrew installed install jq in order to read the JSON you   re about to generate  brew install jq   update each item on the list of outdated packages generated by pip3 list --outdated  pip3 install --upgrade   pip3 list --outdated --format json   jq         name    awk -F  quot     print  2

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A JSON   jq answer  pip list -o --format json   jq         name    xargs pip install -U

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python -c  import pip   pip main   install    --upgrade   d project name   for d in pip get installed distributions       One liner

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I have tried the code of Ramana and I found out on Ubuntu you have to write sudo for each command  Here is my script which works fine on Ubuntu  13 10  Saucy Salamander      usr bin env python import pip from subprocess import call  for dist in pip get installed distributions        call  quot sudo pip install --upgrade  quot    dist project name  shell True

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The simplest and fastest solution that I found in the pip issue discussion is   pip install pipdate pipdate   Source  https   github com pypa pip issues 3819

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