Where does pip install its packages?

Question

I activated a virtualenv which has pip installed. I did

pip3 install Django==1.8

and Django successfully downloaded. Now, I want to open up the Django folder. Where is the folder located? Normally it would be in "downloads" but I'm not sure where it would be if I installed it using pip in a virtualenv.

Answer 1

pip, when used with virtualenv, will generally install packages in the path

<virtualenv_name>/lib/<python_ver>/site-packages.

For example, I created a test virtualenv named venv_test with Python 2.7, and the django folder is in venv_test/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django.