pip show no longer valid yaml

[lillekemiker]

• Pip version: 8.1.0
• Python version: 2.7.10
• Operating System: MacOSX El-Capitaon

Description:

This may not be a bug, per se, as pip show never claimed to produce valid yaml. However, it used to be valid yaml and it is not now when used to fetch the current version of pip-tools (1.6).
The problem seems to be the Entry-points field (see below)

What I've run:

$ pip show pip-tools

---
Metadata-Version: 2.0
Name: pip-tools
Version: 1.6
Summary:
Home-page: None
Author: None
Author-email: None
Installer: pip
License: None
Location: /home/goldbaum/miniconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages
Requires: six, click, first
Classifiers:
Entry-points:
  [console_scripts]
  pip-compile = piptools.scripts.compile:cli
  pip-sync = piptools.scripts.sync:cli

The last three lines are not valid yaml

[Ivoz]

Ya, it being that was completely incidental.

[xavfernandez]

+1, closing as won't fix.
An improvment could be to allow for --json/--yaml options to force valid output formats.