Can you simply delete the directory from your python installation, or are there any lingering files that you must delete?
Can you simply delete the directory from your python installation, or are there any
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Can you simply delete the directory from your python installation, or are there any lingering files that you must delete?
It varies based on the options that you pass to
installand the contents of the distutils configuration files on the system/in the package. I don’t believe that any files are modified outside of directories specified in these ways.Notably, distutils does not have an uninstall command at this time.
It’s also noteworthy that deleting a package/egg can cause dependency issues – utilities like
easy_installattempt to alleviate such problems.