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Some useful pip (python package manager) command:

show: used to know specific information about a module installed on your system:

$ pip show requests
 Name: requests
 Version: 2.13.0
 Summary: Python HTTP for Humans.
 Home-page: http://python-requests.org
 Author: Kenneth Reitz
 Author-email: me@kennethreitz.com
 License: Apache 2.0
 Location: /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages
 Requires:

search: used to search a python package on pypi.python.org:

$ pip search "suds"
 suds-aop (0.6.1)                  - Lightweight SOAP client (aop's fork)
 ...
 ...
 ...

NOTE: the above list is truncated.

list: list installed packages.

pip list

NOTE: you can grep on pip list to see if a specific package is installed or check its version:

pip list | grep "requests"

freeze: this command does the the same task as list, but its output can be placed inside of the requirements.txt.

uninstall: remove a package from your system: