python setup.py uninstall

At {virtualenv}/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ (if not using virtualenv then {system_dir}/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/)

• Remove the egg file (e.g. distribute-0.6.34-py2.7.egg)
• If there is any from file easy-install.pth, remove the corresponding line (it should be a path to the source directory or of an egg file).

If you still have files that are supposed to be deleted after re-installing a package, make sure the folder build is also deleted. Therefore, assuming that pkg is the package you want to delete:

rm -r $(python3 -c "import pkg; print(pkg.__path__[0] + '*' )") 
rm -rf build

Obove work out for python3 and delete the package and its *.egg-info file

I had run python setup.py install once in my PyCharm, it installs all the packages into my conda base environment. Later when I want to remove all these packages, pip uninstall does not work. I had to delete them from /anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages manually :(

So I don't see the reason why they use setup.py instead of writing requirements.txt file. The requirement file can be used to install packages in virtual environment and won't mess with system python packages.

I have a develop egg link set up with python setup.py develop under a conda environment and with pip uninstall <packagename> the egg link is removed. At least in this scenario, pip uninstall is one way to do this.

Install from local python setup.py install

Uninstall from local pip uninstall mypackage