[SOLVED] How can I 'clean up' a virtualenv?

Issue

If I want to keep my venv as clean as possible how can I clean up the stuff I don't need? Let me lay out an example...

Say I try a bunch of new modules...

pip install foo
pip install bar
pip install foobar
pip install foobarfoo

and these modules have some requirements of their own, etc. later I decide on which one I want to use, but then I have a huge list of stuff in my requirement.txt and I can't remember what I need and what I don't, what depends on what, etc.

How can I keep it clean and lean?

Solution

This answer may be just what you need.

You can install and use the pip-autoremove utility to remove a package plus unused dependencies.

# install pip-autoremove 
pip install pip-autoremove
# remove "somepackage" plus its dependencies: 
pip-autoremove somepackage -y

Answered By - Brendan Abel

Answer Checked By - Mary Flores (WPSolving Volunteer)