If I do something like version = Pkg.status(), then version is nothing. How do I save the output from Pkg.status() to a string variable? All I need is just the package name with the version number in a human readable format, so Project.toml is not helpful. I notice a similar question here , but from…

From the help page of Pkg.status() See Pkg.project and Pkg.dependencies to get the project/manifest status as a Julia object instead of printing it. julia> proj = Pkg.project() Pkg.API.ProjectInfo(nothing, nothing, nothing, false, Dict{String, Base.UUID}("OffsetArrays" => UUID("6fe1bfb0-de20-500…

looking up the dictionary from Pkg.dependencies() is my current approach though I need to manually specify the package I’m checking. Pkg.project().dependencies is essentially just the Project.toml file and the UUID are not really helpful for my purpose. I’m just wondering if there’s a simple IO meth…

[image] yhchang96: I’m just wondering if there’s a simple IO method where I can direct the output from Pkg.status() (something exactly what I need) to a string variable, something I thought was trivial but apparently not the case. @ufechner7 just gave that to you above. julia> io = IOBuffer(…

In case you also wanted to preserve the color output, use IOContext. julia> io = IOBuffer() IOBuffer(data=UInt8[...], readable=true, writable=true, seekable=true, append=false, size=0, maxsize=Inf, ptr=1, mark=-1) julia> ioc = IOContext(io, :color => true) IOContext(IOBuffer(data=UInt8[...], reada…

How to save the output from Pkg.status() as a string variable?

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ufechner7 December 2, 2023, 1:26am 3

What about:

io = IOBuffer()
Pkg.status(; io=io)
st = String(take!(io))

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How to save the output from Pkg.status() as a string variable?

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