A script to uninstall all python packages via pip and clear cache. (For Unix based systems only. Ditch Windows today.)

#clean-pip.md

Run this script directly

curl -Lks bit.ly/pipclear | python

clean_pip.py

#! /usr/bin/env python


import os
from typing import List


def run(*commands: str) -> None:
    for cmd in commands:
        try:
            status = os.system(cmd)
            if status != 0:
                raise Exception(f"{cmd} returned non zero exit code")
        except Exception as err:
            print(err)


def ensure() -> None:
    os.chdir(os.path.expanduser("~"))
    run("pip --version", "python --version", "pwd")


def python_packages() -> List[str]:
    run("pip freeze > python_packages")
    with open("python_packages") as file:
        packages = [package.strip() for package in file.readlines()]
    return packages


def uninstall(packages: List[str]):
    for package in packages:
        run(f"pip uninstall {package} -y")
    run("pip cache purge")
    run("rm python_packages")

def main():
    ensure()
    packages = python_packages()
    uninstall(packages)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    print("MIT LICENSE\nCopyright (c) 2021 Aahnik Daw")
    main()
    
# AAHNIK 2021