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Asked: 2019-08-24 07:33:58 +0800 CST

Corrupted paths in Python 3.7 and it is possible restore/revert Python3.7 to it's original state? (19.04)

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My python3.7 paths are corrupted. As I ended up installing apt and pip3 packages, from virtualenv, wrapper, django. Which is bad practice to install from pip3. I didn't back the files up properly. It ended causing issues in the venv directory and on PyCharm IDE. I tried uninstalling the third version of virtualenv and django. Which didn't make a difference.

So essentially revert Python3.7 to to it's original state, no extra packages installed etc. Terminal:

python3

>>> import sys
>>> sys.path
['', '/usr/lib/python37.zip', '/usr/lib/python3.7', '/usr/lib/python3.7/lib-dynload', '/home/name/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages', '
/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages']
package-management python apt software-uninstall

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You have only one path to delete.

    Here is what a stock install looks like:

    >>> import sys
>>> sys.path
[
 '', 
 '/usr/lib/python37.zip', 
 '/usr/lib/python3.7', 
 '/usr/lib/python3.7/lib-dynload', 
 '/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages',
 '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages'
]
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