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Jing Gu
Jing Gu

Reputation: 519

What is the difference of the package under `anaconda3/bin` and `anaconda3/lib/python3.7/`?

After I install the package transformer by pip install transformer, I find it under three locations.

    /home/jinggu/anaconda3/bin/transformers
    /home/jinggu/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/transformers-2.1.1.dist-info/*
    /home/jinggu/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/transformers/*

What is the difference between these three?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 921

Answers (2)

merv
merv

Reputation: 76750

The two in site-packages are for the metadata about the package (transformers-2.1.1.dist-info/) and the actual source code (transformers/). The file in the bin/ folder is called an entry point and represents a commandline interface provided by the package. In this case, you can see this defined in the setup.py file and that it points to running the main() function.

Upvotes: 1

waffles
waffles

Reputation: 218

The anaconda3/bin folder contains executables installed w/ the package. If packages would like to provide a command line interface they will come with binaries to be executed from the command line. Not sure what transformers is, but if you navigate to anaconda3/bin/ you should be able to ./transformers -flags or cla's.

The python3.7/site-packages/ folders contain the python source code that can be imported to be used in your projects. This is generally how anaconda packages are used - and how you use the packaged libraries through conda's environment.

In your case, the transformers package came with binaries as well as the source code (to be imported for use in your projects).

Upvotes: 1

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