PIP3-SHOW(1)

πŸ’– pip3-show β€” the manual page but make it cute πŸ’–

okay bestie, so this is pip3-show, from the pip manual (PIP3-SHOW(1), yeah that's the whole title, she's lowkey famous).


✨ NAME ✨

pip3-show β€” bestie, this is literally the description of the pip3 show command 🫢


🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So what does she do?? She shows you information about one or more installed packages. that's it, that's the job, and she does it flawlessly πŸ’…

And the output? it's giving RFC-compliant mail header format ✨ like, the same format as an email header but make it package metadata. no cap.


πŸŽ€ USAGE πŸŽ€

here's how you summon her:

python -m pip show [options] <package> ...

note the <package> ... β€” that's one or more packages, she ate that πŸ‘‘


✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -f, --files β€” shows you the full list of installed files for each package. every single file. she's thorough like that πŸ¦‹
(environment variable: PIP_FILES) πŸ’œ

🧚 Author 🧚

the pip developers β€” icons, legends, the moment, periodt πŸ‘‘


The pip developers. that's them, they own it, we love them for it 🌸


and that's the whole page babes!! version 26.1, dated Jun 02, 2026, and that's a wrap β€” go install something iconic, iykyk πŸ’…βœ¨πŸŽ€

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