What is “pkg-resources==0.0.0” in output of pip freeze command

According to https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/4022, this is a bug resulting from Ubuntu providing incorrect metadata to pip. So, no there does not seem to be a good reason for this behaviour. I filed a follow-up bug with Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-pip/+bug/1635463 To backup the previous answer, it should be safe to remove that line from your requirements.txt. Here is … Read more