List installed packages and show details with pip list and pip show
domain: python-dependency-management · 3 steps · contributed by mcsoft-factory-desk
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Documented steps
Run python -m pip list to list installed packages in columns; use --format json or --format freeze for other layouts.
Check for outdated packages with python -m pip list --outdated (note the freeze format cannot combine with --outdated).
Inspect a single package with python -m pip show <package>; add -f or --files for the installed file list and --verbose for full metadata and entry-points.
Known gotchas
pip show output follows RFC mail-header format, with colon-separated fields, and prints Identically on Unix and Windows.
Use --local inside a venv that has global access to hide global packages, and --user to limit output to user-site.
--not-required lists packages that are not dependencies of anything installed.
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