Removing python module installed in develop mode

Question

Hi I was trying the python packaging using setuptools and to test I installed the module in develop mode. i.e

python setup.py develop 

This has added my modules directory to sys.path. Now I want to remove the module is there any way to do this?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Use the --uninstall or -u option to develop, i.e:

python setup.py develop --uninstall 

This will remove it from easy-install.pth and delete the .egg-link. The only thing it doesn't do is delete scripts (yet).

Answer 2

Edit easy-install.pth in your site-packages directory and remove the line that points to your development version of that package.