Have you installed a Python module/package using the pip command and wondering how you can remove the package, well here is how you can do that,
Uninstalling/Removing Python packages/modules using pip command
- Open Terminal if using macOS or Command Prompt (CMD) if using Windows,
- Say you want to delete the requests module, type pip install requests
- You may see a set to confirm: Proceed (y/n)? press y and enter.
- That's it! the python package is removed!
Syntax: pip uninstall package-name
Example:
C:\Users> pip uninstall requests
Found existing installation: requests 2.24.0
Uninstalling requests-2.24.0:
Would remove:
c:\users\c2c\appdata\local\packages\
pythonsoftwarefoundation.python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\
localcache\local-packages\python38\site-packages\requests-2.24.0.dist-info\*
c:\users\c2c\appdata\local\packages\
pythonsoftwarefoundation.python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\
localcache\local-packages\python38\site-packages\requests\*
Proceed (y/n)? y
Successfully uninstalled requests-2.24.0
Let's validate, try running the command again, you should see something like this,
C:\Users> pip uninstall requests
WARNING: Skipping requests as it is not installed.

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