Where is site-packages located in a Conda environment?

Question

After installing a package in an Conda environment, I'd like to make some changes to the code in that package.

Where can I find the site-packages directory containing the installed packages?

I have an Anaconda Python 2.7 base distribution, but I do not find a directory:

/Users/username/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages

Answer 1

You can import the module and check the module.__file__ string. It contains the path to the associated source file.

Alternatively, you can read the File tag in the the module documentation, which can be accessed using help(module), or module? in IPython.

Answer 2

One more option using the interpreter:

import site; print(''.join(site.getsitepackages()))

And using a terminal/prompt:

python -c "import site; print(''.join(site.getsitepackages()))"

Also in this case you can easily print one of the directory (in case there are more than one) using own filter

Answer 3

At least with Miniconda (I assume it's the same for Anaconda), within the environment folder, the packages are installed in a folder called \conda-meta.

i.e.

C:\Users\username\Miniconda3\envs\environmentname\conda-meta

If you install on the base environment, the location is:

C:\Users\username\Miniconda3\pkgs

Answer 4

Generic approach for environment foo from Conda CLI would be:

conda run -n foo python -m site

which for my base environment looks like:

$ conda run -n base python -m site

sys.path = [
    '/Users/mfansler/miniconda3/lib/python3.8',
    '/Users/mfansler/miniconda3/lib/python38.zip',
    '/Users/mfansler/miniconda3/lib/python3.8/lib-dynload',
    '/Users/mfansler/miniconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages',
]
USER_BASE: '/Users/mfansler/.local' (exists)
USER_SITE: '/Users/mfansler/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages' (doesn't exist)
ENABLE_USER_SITE: True

The answer is the site-packages in the sys.path list.

Answer 5

Run this inside python shell:

from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib
print(get_python_lib())

Answer 6

You should find installed packages in :

anaconda's directory / lib / site_packages

That's where i found mine.

Answer 7

You could also type 'conda list' in a command line. This will print out the installed modules with the version numbers. The path within your file structure will be printed at the top of this list.

Answer 8

Linux users can find the locations of all the installed packages like this:

pip list | xargs -exec pip show

Updated 2022-03-21 to remove the unwanted table heading at the top of pip list output:

pip list | tail -n +3 | xargs -exec pip show

Answer 9

I installed miniconda and found all the installed packages in /miniconda3/pkgs

Answer 10

I encountered this issue in my conda environment. The reason is that packages have been installed into two different folders, only one of which is recognised by the Python executable.

~/anaconda2/envs/[my_env]/site-packages ~/anaconda2/envs/[my_env]/lib/python2.7/site-packages

A proved solution is to add both folders to python path, using the following steps in command line (Please replace [my_env] with your own environment):

1. conda activate [my_env].
2. conda-develop ~/anaconda2/envs/[my_env]/site-packages
3. conda-develop ~/anaconda2/envs/[my_env]/lib/python2.7/site-packages (conda-develop is to add a .pth file to the folder so that the Python executable knows of this folder when searching for packages.)

To ensure this works, try to activate Python in this environment, and import the package that was not found.

Answer 11

This answer is for a generic Anaconda installation on Windows 11. If you are actually looking for a site-packages folder, there is one in c:\ProgramData\anaconda3\lib. One comment said the search was for installed modules (e.g. conda install foo), for them you might want to look in c:\ProgramData\ananconda3\pkgs.

You should also note: If you are in a virtual environment, there is also a site-packages folder in the .conda\lib folder at the root of that environment.

Answer 12

The location should be (in Linux systems):

home/<USERNAME>/anaconda3/envs/<ENV_NAME>/lib/python<VERSION>/site-packages/