Retreive a list of all available packages from pip. (pip(1) doesn't output in a nice format)

get_all_pip_packages.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import pip

searcher = pip.commands.SearchCommand()
options, _ = searcher.parse_args([])
hits = searcher.search('*', options)
hits_transformed = pip.commands.search.transform_hits(hits)
for hit in hits_transformed:
  print(hit['name'])