How do you uninstall a python package that was installed using distutils?

Question

Can you simply delete the directory from your python installation, or are there any lingering files that you must delete?

Answer 1

On Mac OSX, manually delete these 2 directories under your pathToPython/site-packages/ will work:

• {packageName}
• {packageName}-{version}-info

for example, to remove pyasn1, which is a distutils installed project:

• rm -rf lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyasn1
• rm -rf lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyasn1-0.1.9-py2.7.egg-info

To find out where is your site-packages:

python -m site