Pip dosen't show the installed module - argparse

Question

I've already installed argparse successfully, but it doesn't show up on pip list.

C:\Python34>pip install argparse
Collecting argparse
  Downloading argparse-1.4.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: argparse
Successfully installed argparse-1.4.0

C:\Python34>pip install argparse
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): argparse in c:\python34\lib\site-packages    
C:\Python34>pip list
Bottleneck (1.0.0)
chardet (2.3.0)
fuzzywuzzy (0.10.0)
nltk (3.1)
numexpr (2.6.0)
numpy (1.10.4)
pandas (0.18.1)
pip (8.1.2)
python-dateutil (2.5.3)
pytz (2016.4)
scipy (0.17.0)
setuptools (18.2)
six (1.10.0)

on Windows 10.

I know this might be too obvious, but have you checked in the c:\python34\lib\site-packages directory to see if argparse exists? — Dziugas, Jun 21 '16 at 02:13
Why are you trying to add `argparse` to Python3.4? It comes standard with that version. From Waldmann's docs: `The PyPi argparse package is mostly for people who want to have argparse on older Pythons, like < 2.7 or < 3.2 because it was not in stdlib back then.` — hpaulj, Jun 21 '16 at 03:25
@hpaulj I'm trying to install a package, and it fails, saying "Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement setup.py". and I found the argparse was not in the list, so I suspected it cause the problem. — MJ Park, Jun 22 '16 at 01:57

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 21 '16 at 02:32

Its Not importnat. You Can Check Your Library With show.

pip show argparse

Result:

C:\Users\ALiRezaCH>pip show argparse
---
Metadata-Version: 2.0
Name: argparse
Version: 1.4.0
Summary: Python command-line parsing library
Home-page: https://github.com/ThomasWaldmann/argparse/
Author: Thomas Waldmann
Author-email: tw@waldmann-edv.de
Installer: pip
License: Python Software Foundation License
Location: c:\users\alirezach\appdata\local\programs\python\python35-32\lib\site-packages
Requires:
Classifiers:
  Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable
  Environment :: Console
  Intended Audience :: Developers
  License :: OSI Approved :: Python Software Foundation License
  Operating System :: OS Independent
  Programming Language :: Python
  Programming Language :: Python :: 2
  Programming Language :: Python :: 3
  Programming Language :: Python :: 2.3
  Programming Language :: Python :: 2.4
  Programming Language :: Python :: 2.5
  Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6
  Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
  Programming Language :: Python :: 3.0
  Programming Language :: Python :: 3.1
  Programming Language :: Python :: 3.2
  Programming Language :: Python :: 3.3
  Programming Language :: Python :: 3.4
  Topic :: Software Development

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:52

Search tags for the package that is expecting argparse. I recall an earlier SO question about a specific package expecting a specific argparse version.

In the standard version, argparse.__version__ is 1.1. That is, the version number hasn't changed since it was added to Python. But that @Waldman version is up to 1.4.0, even though, there's no development there. I haven't studied that version to see how it differs from the version currently shipped with Python. Differences, if any, should be minor.

I don't know how you can resolve the install issues. If you get around that, and you still have issues using the standard argparse, come back with your questions.

Favoring a pip-installed module over the standard library copy - found with '[argparse] pypi'.

Pip dosen't show the installed module - argparse

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