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How to know What And How many packages are installed with Python on your machine

Its simple I found out ...about the way to know the no. of packages installed along with Python in my machine...
In a popular forum ..the method of :
help('modules') command is not working ...(at least for me)..
So I looked around and came up with the following methods:

Method 1:
>Using freeze
    from the command shell one can do the following 
    pip freeze
    This will enlist all the installed package with Python.

Method 2: ( I prefer this)
>Using yolk
  It is a very robust package developed by good guys...It can be installed from the source           from  the PYPI site.
  I said it is robust for its functionality and features. 
  Some examples of using yolk are as follows:

 $ yolk -l
     List all installed Python packages


$ yolk -a
     List only the activated packages installed (Activated packages are normal packages on sys.path you can import)



$ yolk -n
     List only the non-activated (--multi-version) packages installed

$ yolk -l -f License,Author nose==1.0
     Show the license and author for version 1.0 of the package `nose`

$ yolk --entry-map nose
     Show entry map for the nose package

$ yolk --entry-points nose.plugins
     Show all setuptools entry points for nose.plugins

More than these...I can show you other things to use as such like:


$ yolk -U pkg_name
     Shows if an update for pkg_name is available by querying PyPI

$ yolk -U
     Checks PyPI to see if any installed Python packages have updates available.

$ yolk -F Paste
     Download source tarball for latest version of Paste to your current directory

$ yolk -F Paste -T svn
     Do a subversion checkout for Paste to a directory named Paste_svn in your current directory.

$ yolk -L 2
     Show list of CheeseShop releases in the last two hours

$ yolk -C 2
     Show detailed list of changes in the CheeseShop in the last two hours

$ yolk -M Paste==1.0
     Show all the metadata for Paste version 1.0

$ yolk -M Paste
     Show all the metadata for the latest version of Paste listed on PyPi

$ yolk -D cheesecake
     Show all (source, egg, svn) URL's for the latest version of cheesecake packages

 $ yolk -T source -D cheesecake
     Show only source code releases for cheesecake

 $ yolk -H twisted
     Launches your web browser at Twisted's home page
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....I hope this helps anybody seeing it....
 Happy Coding...cheers ...
way to goo!

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