PIP-FREEZE(1)

✨ NAME ✨

pip-freeze — bestie, this is the description of the pip freeze command 💖

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

It spits out your installed packages in requirements format. That's the whole vibe.

Packages get listed in a case-insensitive sorted order — so it's alphabetical-ish and it does NOT care about your capital letters, no cap. ✨

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🎀 USAGE 🎀

python -m pip freeze [options]

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -r, --requirement <file> — bestie it uses the order from the given requirements file (and its comments too, yes the comments are coming along for the ride 🫶) when it generates the output. And the way that you can use this option multiple times?? iconic, stack them. (environment variable: PIP_REQUIREMENT)
• -l, --local — if you're in a virtualenv that has global access, this says do not output the globally-installed packages. keep it local, keep it yours 💜 (environment variable: PIP_LOCAL)
• --user — only output packages installed in user-site. that's it, that's the girl. (environment variable: PIP_USER)
• --path <path> — restricts the listing to the specified installation path for listing packages. can be used multiple times, so go off, give it all the paths 🦋 (environment variable: PIP_PATH)
• --all — do not skip these packages in the output: pip — (environment variable: PIP_ALL)
• --exclude-editable — excludes editable package from output. bye bestie, not in my list 🙈 (environment variable: PIP_EXCLUDE_EDITABLE)
• --exclude <package> — excludes the specified package from the output. (environment variable: PIP_EXCLUDE)

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👑 Author 👑

pip developers — the icons themselves, we love them, no notes 💖

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⭐ Copyright ⭐

The pip developers

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so anyway, this page is from pip version 26.0, dated Aug 26, 2026, and it lives in the manual as PIP-FREEZE(1). go freeze ur requirements bestie, slay 💅✨