"pip uninstall" not removing all files

[anish-lakkapragada]

SeaLion uses cython code in .pyx files and then compiles that into .so files that are then imported in python .py files that you call. This is for speed benefits.

When you do "pip(3) install sealion" what you are doing is getting all of the files in this directory, which do not include the .so files, just the .pyx. In the first import you compile all the .pyx into .so files, I don't hand you my .so files as it is OS dependent.

This means that the generated .so (and .c and .o) files do not get deleted in "pip(3) uninstall sealion". This leads to some problems. If you reinstall sealion with a new release, then you are still going to have those .so files compiled on the old .pyx files, instead of how instead you would want the new .so compiled files on the new .pyx files. I think this is how it works, please correct me if I am wrong.

Any solutions to this? Any ideas, questions, solutions, etc. are GREATLY APPRECIATED. Thank you!