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authorkeanemind <keanemind@gmail.com>2018-06-19 13:05:19 -0500
committerkeanemind <keanemind@gmail.com>2018-06-19 13:05:19 -0500
commit176fa8dd2553e43fea25d998961f5895c3724858 (patch)
tree87d972dcb9feb6d434128439c1e89002de99eea6
parentcbc21a5957d1be21d1ecb12af28c5d78a01843b1 (diff)
downloadpip-176fa8dd2553e43fea25d998961f5895c3724858.tar.gz
Document that pip show is machine readable
-rw-r--r--src/pip/_internal/commands/show.py6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/pip/_internal/commands/show.py b/src/pip/_internal/commands/show.py
index 1a8d9681e..413613346 100644
--- a/src/pip/_internal/commands/show.py
+++ b/src/pip/_internal/commands/show.py
@@ -14,7 +14,11 @@ logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
class ShowCommand(Command):
- """Show information about one or more installed packages."""
+ """
+ Show information about one or more installed packages.
+
+ The output is in RFC-compliant mail header format.
+ """
name = 'show'
usage = """
%prog [options] <package> ..."""