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Command to determine where Python searches for packages. Get all the details from https://leemendelowitz.github.io/blog/how-does-python-find-packages.html
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python_package_paths.py
import sys
'''
list paths that Python searches for packages.
see https://leemendelowitz.github.io/blog/how-does-python-find-packages.html for the whole story.
an example of a path Python searches are the paths listed in the PYTHONPATH environment variable.
'''
print('\n'.join(sys.path))
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