Overview 🎯 A handy Python utility that explains any Python package by showing its summary, version, and top-level attributes if installed, or fetching description and official links directly from PyPI if not installed. Perfect for quickly understanding what a package does without digging through documentation manually. 🚀
Detects if the package is installed locally and shows:
First paragraph of the docstring 📜
Version number 🔢
Installation location 📂
Top-level attributes and objects (functions, classes, constants) 🛠️
If the package is not installed, fetches:
Summary & description from PyPI 🌐
Home page and project URLs 📎
Latest version available 📈
Works with any public package available on PyPI
Lightweight, fast, and easy to use ⚡
Make sure you have Python 3.6+ installed. Clone this repository and install requests (optional, but required for PyPI lookups):
pip install requestsRun the script with the package name as an argument:
python explain_package.py numpyOr run without arguments to enter the package name interactively:
python explain_package.pyThis project is licensed under the MIT License.
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