How do I access packages installed by `pip --user`?

Question

I realized I had an outdated numpy version:

$ python
Python 2.7.10 (default, Oct 23 2015, 18:05:06)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compa         


        

Answer 1

I installed packages with sudo pip install --user option and I had to do sudo python to get it working.

vishnu$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

With sudo:

vishnu$ sudo python
Python 2.7.10 (default, Jul 15 2017, 17:16:57) 
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 9.0.0 (clang-900.0.31)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import rasa_core
>>> 

Without sudo:

vishnu$ python
Python 2.7.10 (default, Jul 15 2017, 17:16:57) 
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 9.0.0 (clang-900.0.31)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import rasa_core
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in 
ImportError: No module named rasa_core

PS: I am running these on Mac OS High Sierra and my issue was with rasa_core and dependent packages.