[Distutils] pip freeze not reporting pip or wsgiref

[Chris Jerdonek]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 4:20 AM, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> A couple of buglets I've noticed while using picky in anger:
>
> 1. pip freeze doesn't include a line for pip itself, why is that?
>
> 2. pip freeze doesn't include packages provided by the standard libary (ie:
> wsgiref), even if they're explicitly specified in requirements.txt.
>
> What's the pip developers view of both of the above? Is this still the right
> forum to discuss these things?

There is some discussion about both of these issues here:

#1570: "pip freeze/list should filter out 'argparse' for python > 2.6"
https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/1570

#1610: Do not exclude legitimately installed packages from pip freeze
https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/1610

--Chris