Gisle Vanem writes:
> ...
> All this *.dist-info stuff is alien stuff to me, but I guess
> 'pip install --upgrade' uses these?
Most of "pip" is using this. They contain important meta information
(e.g. version number, dependencies, overview information, ...)
about a distribution not directly used
dieter wrote:
directory with some possible leftovers. It there a connection
between this mysterious '-ip' package and this directory?
This is possible. A so called "distribution" can install
packages of a different name (for example, the distribution "Zope"
installs (among others) a package "Z
Gisle Vanem writes:
> ... pip list ...
> But for my Python 3.6 installation, it claims I have
> an '-ip' package:
> -ip-> f:\programfiler\python36\lib\site-packages
>
> I fail to find one, but I do have a:
> f:\programfiler\python36\lib\site-packages\~ip-19.1.1.dist-info
>
> directory wi
Hello list.
This little program should print the location of all
my installed Python packages:
-- 8< -- 8< ---
import pip
try:
packages = pip.get_installed_distributions (local_only=False, skip=())
except AttributeError:
import pkg_resources # Python3
packages = pkg_
