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Name canonicalization issue in pip uninstall

See original GitHub issue

Environment

pip version: 20.1
Python version: 3
OS: Linux (probably irrelevant)

Description

pip uninstall should canonicalize names when determining if they are installed.

How to Reproduce

$ pip install zope-interface  # notice the dash
$ pip list
...
zope.interface  # notice the dot
$ pip uninstall zope-interface  # same name as in pip install
WARNING: Skipping zope-interface as it is not installed.

Expected result

In the example above, pip should have uninstalled zope.interface.

This is easily worked around when used manually, but is more annoying when the uninstall command is invoked by tools working with canonical names.

Issue Analytics

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:5 (5 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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sbidoulcommented, Jul 26, 2020

Ah, perfect. Thanks for investigating this @atugushev.

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McSinyxcommented, Jul 26, 2020

Please have my apologies: you are correct, I was testing on an venv and it uses pip’s latest release instead of the editable version. I can confirm that the problem is solved as of current master.

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