How apps installed at pip really works?

Question

I'm new at django and i was looking for a wysiwyg and i fuond tinymce. I installed at pip command line and i expect that create a folder at my folder project like a new app. It dont created no one folder but i did the next steps and for my surprise the app works fine at my project. I want to know how this app really works at my project, in case im gonne deploy this project and how to deploy the app installed at pip or something like that. My englhish is not good but i hope that was clear.

Answer 1

The applications, or libraries rather are copied directly inside one of the folders inside your python directory called Lib/site-packages. This exact location depends on your operating system you can find usually find your newly installed packages under

For Windows

C:/PythonXX/Lib/site-packages/

For Linux

/usr/local/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages

When you run a python script, Python will automatically include these folders as available resources, and when you add for example import X to your code, it will check to see if X is listed.

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