Search Python extensions

[sassy-crick]

Further the discussion on Slack: we believe it would be useful to have an easy way to search the Python extensions which are installed by EasyBuild.
There are some obvious ones like numpy for example, others might be more obscure. So the idea was to use something like

$ eb --search-extension FOO

To search the Python extension FOO to find out which extensions are in which EasyConfig.
Thanks

[smoors]

not exactly what you asked for, but I usually use ripgrep for this.
when inside the easyconfigs repo:

rg -l -i -g '*.eb' -g '!__archive__/*' "'numpy'"

[ocaisa]

To do this within EB, I imagine this would be an expensive operation since you would have to fully parse all the easyconfigs to fish out all the extensions. Maybe it's something that could be added to the easyconfig cache file that we ship?