Is there some way to generate the deptree output from code

[gaugup]

Hi, great tool to visualize the dependencies. But is there some way to generate the deptree output from code? It might be helpful to search for certain dependencies within a structure.

[sinoroc]

Thanks for trying my code. I will look into this in the next days.

[sinoroc]

It should be partly possible to use this tool as a library.

Providing input and triggering the computation is straightforward. But as the code is written now, the output will still be strings written to the console. So it is probably not what you need.

[sinoroc]

I will see if I can make it easier to use as a library.

[sinoroc]

@gaugup Any details on how you would like to use this in a library context?

[gaugup]

Hi @sinoroc,

I have something like this in mind:-

from deptree import deptree
dependencies_graph = deptree('package_name') 
for dependency in dependencies_graph:
     # Do something with the immediate dependency
 
     # recursively walk the dependencies of the top level dependency
     

Currently, for testing dependencies in my line of product development, I use python subprocess module with deptree and then parse the console output. We could parse the console output as well to achieve the above, though it might be fairly tedious.

Regards,