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when i install or upgrade a package using pip, i want to have it extract a list of all the files is there an option to get that during the install or upgrade?

Can use --files option.

(my_env) G:\div_code\my_env
λ pip show --files requests
Name: requests
Version: 2.25.0
Summary: Python HTTP for Humans.
Home-page: https://requests.readthedocs.io
Author: Kenneth Reitz
Author-email: [email protected]
License: Apache 2.0
Location: g:\div_code\my_env\lib\site-packages
Requires: urllib3, idna, chardet, certifi
Required-by:
Files:
  requests-2.25.0.dist-info\INSTALLER
  requests-2.25.0.dist-info\LICENSE
  requests-2.25.0.dist-info\METADATA
  requests-2.25.0.dist-info\RECORD
  requests-2.25.0.dist-info\REQUESTED
  requests-2.25.0.dist-info\WHEEL
  requests-2.25.0.dist-info\top_level.txt
  requests\__init__.py
  requests\__pycache__\__init__.cpython-38.pyc
  .....

To it test with a package that has a binary file,which is not in site-packages folder.
We se a relative path ..\..\Scripts\chardetect.exe reference.

(my_env) G:\div_code\my_env
λ pip show --files chardet
Name: chardet
Version: 3.0.4
Summary: Universal encoding detector for Python 2 and 3
Home-page: https://github.com/chardet/chardet
Author: Daniel Blanchard
Author-email: [email protected]
License: LGPL
Location: g:\div_code\my_env\lib\site-packages
Requires:
Required-by: requests
Files:
  ..\..\Scripts\chardetect.exe
  chardet-3.0.4.dist-info\DESCRIPTION.rst
  chardet-3.0.4.dist-info\INSTALLER
  chardet-3.0.4.dist-info\METADATA
  chardet-3.0.4.dist-info\RECORD
  chardet-3.0.4.dist-info\WHEEL
  chardet-3.0.4.dist-info\entry_points.txt
  .....