piptotal
piptotal is a lightweight command‑line utility that integrates with the Python package installer pip to report statistics about a Python environment. The primary function of piptotal is to display the total number of packages currently installed in the active environment, optionally filtered by additional criteria such as package category, distribution type, or version constraints. By default, piptotal enumerates all top‑level distributions that pip knows about and simplifies the output to a single integer that can be piped or consumed by other tooling.
The tool was introduced in 2020 by a community contributor seeking to streamline environment audits and is
or with filtering options such as:
piptotal --exclude setuptools,distutils
The utility supports both virtual and system‑wide Python installations and respects the current PYTHONPATH. It also
piptotal is cross‑platform, functioning on Windows, macOS, and Linux, and is written in pure Python 3.6 and