Contour freezing shows applications, packaging, pyraring, six installed

Question

I created virtualenv, installed Django in it with

pip install django==1.9.8 

after that

 pip freeze 

produces

 appdirs==1.4.0 Django==1.9.8 packaging==16.8 pyparsing==2.1.10 six==1.10.0 

Where did all these packages come from? How to get rid of them? I worked a lot of time with the same approach, and the setup was clean. circuit freezing showed that only Django was installed.

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I am using Ubuntu 16.04, Python 2.7.12, virtualenv version 15 in my home and Windows 7, WinPython 2.7.10 at work. I tried to understand this, but for me the problem seems to be out of nowhere.

Answer 1

These are packages that are automatically added to the virtual environment on Linux, as newer versions of python contain setuptools

You will not get them on Windows, because on windows setuptools are installed through the wheel.

You do not need to worry about them.