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What is the difference between pip list and pip freeze? Seems them both doing about the same, but formatting is different, what is the use case of each of them? which one is more preferable?

mrgloom
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pip list shows all installed packages, whereas pip freeze shows the ones installed by the user.

Patrick A. Lee
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  • On Linux, this is misleading: both show ALL packages, including those installed by the system's package manager. `pip freeze` omits only setuptools, wheel, pip, distribute, but has an `all` option to include them. See the [documentaion](https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/cli/pip_freeze/#cmdoption-all). – j77h Jun 12 '23 at 09:40