Where are the python packages installed in docker

Question

I'm using docker in my Mac.

Dockerfile:

#Dockerfile,Image,Container
FROM python:3.8

ADD main.py .

ADD test.py .

ADD spy511282022.csv .

RUN pip install requests pandas sqlalchemy

RUN pip list

CMD ["python","./test.py"]

My question is where are the packages sqlalchemy and requests located ,where are the directory ,because I want to modify some code of these package ,so I want to know where they have been installed.

Another question is ,can I customize the installation path and directory ?

Answer 1

Packages are installed in /usr/local/lib/<python version>/site-packages/<package name>/.

for example, the requests package for python 3.12 is located in:

/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/requests/

You can also run pip show requests from within your docker container which should return the package location.