Get summary for pip packages, use . pip-summary.sh requirements.txt

pip-summary.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Get summary for pip packages
# . pip-summary.sh requirements.txt

for package in $(cat $1 | sort); do
    if `pip3 install -q --no-deps $package`; then
        package_name=$(echo $package | sed -e 's/==.*//g')
        pip3 show $package_name \
        | awk -v name=Summary 'BEGIN { FS=":" } (name == $1) { print $2 }' \
        | echo "$package_name:" $(cat)
    fi
done

You can use it for project dependencies investigation. For example

. pip-summary.sh requirements.txt > packages-summary.txt
cat packages-summary.txt

Babel: Internationalization utilities
Django: A high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
Fabric: Fabric is a simple, Pythonic tool for remote execution and deployment.
Jinja2: A small but fast and easy to use stand-alone template engine written in pure python.
MarkupSafe: Implements a XML/HTML/XHTML Markup safe string for Python
PyJWT: JSON Web Token implementation in Python
PyNaCl: Python binding to the Networking and Cryptography (NaCl) library
PyYAML: YAML parser and emitter for Python
Pygments: Pygments is a syntax highlighting package written in Python.
Send2Trash: Send file to trash natively under Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.
Unidecode: ASCII transliterations of Unicode text
amqp: Low-level AMQP client for Python (fork of amqplib).