how do I pip uninstall package beginning with special character '-e ...'?

Question

pip freeze:

  ...  
  howdoi==1.1.9
  **-e git+https://github.com/fredzannarbor/howdoi21.git@0efdd53947bb233d529225db30aba2e1e4e2cc6e#egg=howdoi21**
  html5lib==0.999
...

How do I delete the package whose name begins '-e ...'? I tried

 pip uninstall '\-e git+https://github.com/fredzannarbor/howdoi21.git@0efdd53947bb233d529225db30aba2e1e4e2cc6e#egg=howdoi21 
'
Invalid requirement: '\-e git+https://github.com/fredzannarbor/howdoi21.git@0efdd53947bb233d529225db30aba2e1e4e2cc6e#egg=howdoi21'
It looks like a path. Does it exist ?

Answer 1

Try pip uninstall howdoi21

• Usually the 'egg=[PackageName][-dev][-version]' part contains the project name.
• If the github repository was not deleted, you can find the project name from setup.py file.
• How to uninstall editable packages with pip (installed with -e)