Pip installs and looks for modules in two different directories?

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I think this is what happens atleast. If i do:

pip show termcolor

it returns

WARNING: Package(s) not found: termcolor

Oh, okay I forgot to install it then, no problem let me just:

pip install termcolor

it gives me:

Collecting termcolor
  Using cached termcolor-1.1.0.tar.gz (3.9 kB)
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... done
Using legacy 'setup.py install' for termcolor, since package 'wheel' is not installed.
Installing collected packages: termcolor
  Running setup.py install for termcolor ... done
Successfully installed termcolor-1.1.0

Okay, fantastic.

pip show termcolor

still returns

WARNING: Package(s) not found: termcolor

How is this even possible? I have also checked and only 1 version of Python is installed (i even uninstalled Anaconda to be sure) but it still does this.

What I have tried:

I have tried pip install termcolor --upgrade, i have tried pip uninstall termcolor (not possible because it cannot be found but thought it was worth a try)

Posted 25-Apr-22 0:43am

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Updated 25-Apr-22 0:59am

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Richard MacCutchan · Answer 1 · 2022-04-25T00:59:00

I just tried this in a Python virtual environment and it worked fine.

(foobar) C:\foobar>pip install termcolor 
Collecting termcolor
  Using cached termcolor-1.1.0.tar.gz (3.9 kB)
Using legacy 'setup.py install' for termcolor, since package 'wheel' is not installed.
Installing collected packages: termcolor
    Running setup.py install for termcolor ... done
Successfully installed termcolor-1.1.0

(foobar) C:\foobar>pip show termcolor    
Name: termcolor
Version: 1.1.0
Summary: ANSII Color formatting for output in terminal.
Home-page: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/termcolor
Author: Konstantin Lepa
Author-email: konstantin.lepa@gmail.com
License: MIT
Location: c:\foobar\lib\site-packages
Requires:
Required-by: