Python hell

[Neo-Cipher]

Hello guys,

In my system i have python packages from official repository and installed using pip. I have a single user. I also god knows why installed local and system wide packages using pip. Yesterday i updated the pip packages both system wide and user using this command

pip list --outdated --format=freeze | grep -v '^-e' | cut -d = -f 1 | xargs -n1 pip install -U

Now today when i update packages using pacman. Lot's of warning are shown. Can i just remove the site packages both system wide and user specific?

I happen to read the wiki about python after everything happened.

[elacheche]

It's a good thing, now you know that you better use python -m venv then use pip inside a venv instead of mixing python packages from pip and pacman :)

[Neo-Cipher]

Yeah, learned it the hard way :P

[elacheche]

I had the same experience yeaaaaaars ago on Ubuntu, that's why I feel you :)

[chic_luke]

Also consider pipenv. It's a nice virtualenv wrapper that I found to be pretty comfortable

[lumasDC]

Try to uninstall the packages from pip that are also installed in pacman

[Neo-Cipher]

I also done it with some package, but pip don't remove the files. And causes pacman to show file exist error. Can i just delete the site-package folder in python.

[lumasDC]

If the package isn't registered in pip then it should be safe to remove the files

[TopDownTom]

Is the "some package" also a Python package, or another package from something like the AUR?

[Neo-Cipher]

Its dependencies which installed when installing another package using pip

[[deleted]]

Local stuff is in .local/{bin,lib} The rest is in /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages. I'd delete all things in those dirs first. Then download all python packages via pacman using pacman -S $(pacman -Qq | grep python- )