pip freeze shows appdirs, packaging, pyparsing, six installed

Question

I created virtualenv, installed in it Django with

pip install django==1.9.8

after that

pip freeze

produces

appdirs==1.4.0
Django==1.9.8
packaging==16.8
pyparsing==2.1.10
six==1.10.0

Where all these packages are from? How to get rid of them? I worked a lot of time before with the same approach and the setup was clean. pip freeze showed installed only Django.

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I use Ubuntu 16.04,Python 2.7.12, virtualenv version 15 on my home and Windows 7, WinPython 2.7.10 at work. Tried to figure it out but for me the problem looks like appear from nowhere.

Answer 1

That are packages that are automatically added to virtual environment on Linux as newer python versions contain setuptools

You won't get them on Windows as on windows setuptools are installed through wheel.

You don't need to worry about them.