# Virtual Environments and Packages — (tutorial-env) $ python -m pip show requests

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Metadata-Version: 2.0 Name: requests Version: 2.7.0 Summary: Python HTTP for Humans. Home-page: Author: Kenneth Reitz Author-email: me@kennethreitz.com License: Apache 2.0 Location: /Users/akuchling/envs/tutorial-env/lib/python3.4/site-packages Requires

python -m pip list will display all of the packages installed in the virtual environment

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```console
(tutorial-env) $ python -m pip list
novas (3.1.1.3)
numpy (1.9.2)
pip (7.0.3)
requests (2.7.0)
setuptools (16.0)
```

python -m pip freeze will produce a similar list of the installed packages, but the output uses the format that python -m pip install expects. A common convention is to put this list in a requirements.txt file

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```console
(tutorial-env) $ python -m pip freeze &gt; requirements.txt
(tutorial-env) $ cat requirements.txt
novas==3.1.1.3
numpy==1.9.2
requests==2.7.0
```

The requirements.txt can then be committed to version control and shipped as part of an application. Users can then install all the necessary packages with install -r

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```console
(tutorial-env) $ python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
Collecting novas==3.1.1.3 (from -r requirements.txt (line 1))
...
Collecting numpy==1.9.2 (from -r requirements.txt (line 2))
...
Collecting requests==2.7.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 3))
...
Installing collected packages: novas, numpy, requests
Running setup.py install for novas
Successfully installed novas-3.1.1.3 numpy-1.9.2 requests-2.7.0
```

pip has many more options. Consult the installing-index guide for complete documentation for pip. When you've written a package and want to make it available on the Python Package Index, consult the Python packaging user guide_.

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