Is it possible to get pip to print the configuration it is using?

Question

Is there any way to get pip to print the config it will attempt to use? For debugging purposes it would be very nice to know that:

1. config.ini files are in the

Answer 1

From how I see it, your question can be interpreted in three ways:

1. What is the configuration of the pip executable?

There is a quite extensive documentation for the configurations supported by pip, see here: https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/user_guide/#configuration

2. What is the configuration that pip uses when configuring and subsequently building code required by a Python module?

This is specified by the package that is being installed. The package maintainer is responsible for producing a configuration script. For example, Numpy has a Configuration class (https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py) that they use to configure their Cython build.

3. What are the current modules installed with pip so I can reproduce a specific environment configuration?

This is easy, pip freeze > requirements.txt. This will produce a file of all currently installed pip modules along with their exact versions. You can then do pip install -r requirements.txt to reproduce that exact environment configuration on another machine.

I hope this helps.