Where does pip install its packages

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I activated a virtualenv which has pip installed  I did pip3 install Django  1 8  and Django successfully downloaded  Now  I want to open up the Django folder  Where is the folder located  Normally it would be in  quot downloads quot   but I m not sure where it would be if I installed it using pip in a virtualenv

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pip list -v can be used to list packages  install locations  introduced in https   pip pypa io en stable news  b1-2018-03-31  Show install locations when list command ran with    -v    option    979    gt pip list -v Package                  Version   Location                                                             Installer ------------------------ --------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- alabaster                0 7 12    c  users me appdata local programs python python38 lib site-packages pip apipkg                   1 5       c  users me appdata local programs python python38 lib site-packages pip argcomplete              1 10 3    c  users me appdata local programs python python38 lib site-packages pip astroid                  2 3 3     c  users me appdata local programs python python38 lib site-packages pip       This feature is introduced in pip 10 0 0b1  On Ubuntu  18 04  Bionic Beaver   pip or pip3 installed with sudo apt install python-pip or sudo apt install python3-pip is 9 0 1 which doesn t have this feature  Check https   github com pypa pip issues 5599 for suitable ways of upgrading pip or pip3

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pip show  lt package name gt  will provide the location for Windows and macOS  and I m guessing any system     For example   gt  pip show cvxopt Name  cvxopt Version  1 2 0     Location   usr local lib python2 7 site-packages

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In a Python interpreter or script  you can do import site site getsitepackages     List of global package locations  and site getusersitepackages     String for user-specific package location  For locations third-party packages  those not in the core Python distribution  are installed to  On my Homebrew-installed Python on macOS  the former outputs    usr local Cellar python 3 7 4 Frameworks Python framework Versions 3 7 lib python3 7 site-packages    which canonicalizes to the same path output by pip show  as mentioned in a previous answer    readlink -f  usr local Cellar python 3 7 4 Frameworks Python framework Versions 3 7 lib python3 7 site-packages  usr local lib python3 7 site-packages  Reference  https   docs python org 3 library site html site getsitepackages

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pip when used with virtualenv will generally install packages in the path  lt virtualenv name gt  lib  lt python ver gt  site-packages   For example  I created a test virtualenv named venv test with Python 2 7  and the django folder is in venv test lib python2 7 site-packages django

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By default  on Linux  Pip installs packages to  usr local lib python2 7 dist-packages   Using virtualenv or --user during install will change this default location  If you use pip show make sure you are using the right user or else pip may not see the packages you are referencing

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Easiest way is probably pip3 -V  This will show you where your pip is installed and therefore where your packages are located

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One can import the package then consult its help import statsmodels help sm   At the very bottom of the help there is a section FILE that indicates where this package was installed  This solution was tested with at least matplotlib  3 1 2  and statsmodels  0 11 1   python 3 8 2

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