how to unistall a Python package?

[siggi]

Hi all,

installing a package with 'setup.py' is easy. But how do I uninstall the
package, once I want to get rid of it again?

Thanks,

siggi

 

[martin.laloux]

you delete it from lib

 

[Wang Shuhao]

Third party packages are put into $PYTHONHOME\Lib\site-packages after been installed, so to uninstall them, just go there and delete the directory contains all files of your package.


----- Original Message -----
From: "siggi" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 10:02 PM
Subject: how to unistall a Python package?

 

[Colin J. Williams]

With Windows, a few packages, eg. PythonWin, also modify the registry.
numpy, the elaboration of numarray/numeric, and PythonWin have
RemoveXXX.exe in C:\Python25.

I don't know whether this is the standard approach. There doesn't seem
to be a reference to Removal in the distutils document.

Colin W.

 

[siggi]

Thanks for your answers, Martin, Wang and Colin!

siggi

 

[Thomas Heller]

With Windows, a few packages, eg. PythonWin, also modify the registry.
numpy, the elaboration of numarray/numeric, and PythonWin have
RemoveXXX.exe in C:\Python25.

I don't know whether this is the standard approach. There doesn't seem
to be a reference to Removal in the distutils document.

Packages that are create with distutils bdist_wininst command can be removed
using the control panel->add/Software/ Add Remove programs.

This calls RemoveXXX.exe (which is undocumented on purpose).

Thomas