Some useful pip packages for development

pipdeptree: a much more helpful pip list

Shows not only packages installed, but what package installed that package and package requirements and versions

example:

  Flask==0.12
          - click [required: >=2.0, installed: 6.7]
          - itsdangerous [required: >=0.21, installed: 0.24]
          - Jinja2 [required: >=2.4, installed: 2.9.5]
- MarkupSafe [required: >=0.23, installed: 1.0]
          - Werkzeug [required: >=0.7, installed: 0.12]
  pip-tools==1.9.0
          - click [required: >=6, installed: 6.7]
          - first [required: Any, installed: 2.0.1]
          - six [required: Any, installed: 1.10.0]
  pipdeptree==0.10.1
          - pip [required: >=6.0.0, installed: 9.0.1]

to install:

$ pip install pipdeptree

to use:

$ pipdeptree

OR do yourself a favor and alias it.