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Reputation: 48436

What does “[sdist]” mean in PIP's list of outdated packages?

Suddenly, all Python packages reported as out of date by pip with

pip list --outdated

indicate [sdist], as in

awscli (Current: 1.7.19 Latest: 1.7.20 [sdist])
botocore (Current: 0.100.0 Latest: 0.101.0 [sdist])
jmespath (Current: 0.6.1 Latest: 0.6.2 [sdist])
plotly (Current: 1.6.14 Latest: 1.6.15 [sdist])

what does [sdist] mean?

Upvotes: 11

Views: 3135

Answers (1)

EricR
EricR

Reputation: 579

In python packaging terms, "sdist" stands for "source distribution" and it's counterpart "bdist" stands for "binary distribution".

Along with those distribution types there's also the older "egg" and the newer egg-like distribution called "wheel".

In this case it's telling you that the newer version of your packages will be installed as a source distribution. If a binary distribution would be installed, you'd see [wheel] instead.

This is a new feature, as of pip version 6.1.0.

Upvotes: 11

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