after pip install -e .  pip list does not show the transformers package
Author: chengjuzhou
Pull request: no

hi, I try to install transformers from source code and find that the pip list does not find the package despite there is no error in installing

git clone https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.git
cd transformers
pip install -e .

the installing output

Obtaining file:///workspace/tmp/transformers
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Checking if build backend supports build_editable ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
Requirement already satisfied: packaging>=20.0 in /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages (from transformers==4.18.0.dev0) (21.3)
Requirement already satisfied: requests in /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages (from transformers==4.18.0.dev0) (2.27.1)
Requirement already satisfied: tokenizers!=0.11.3,>=0.11.1 in /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages (from transformers==4.18.0.dev0) (0.11.6)
Requirement already satisfied: huggingface-hub<1.0,>=0.1.0 in /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages (from transformers==4.18.0.dev0) (0.4.0)
Requirement already satisfied: tqdm>=4.27 in /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages (from transformers==4.18.0.dev0) (4.63.1)
Requirement already satisfied: regex!=2019.12.17 in /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages (from transformers==4.18.0.dev0) (2021.11.2)
Requirement already satisfied: filelock in /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages (from transformers==4.18.0.dev0) (3.6.0)
Requirement already satisfied: sacremoses in /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages (from transformers==4.18.0.dev0) (0.0.49)
Requirement already satisfied: numpy>=1.17 in /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages (from transformers==4.18.0.dev0) (1.22.3)
Requirement already satisfied: pyyaml>=5.1 in /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages (from transformers==4.18.0.dev0) (6.0)
Requirement already satisfied: typing-extensions>=3.7.4.3 in /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages (from huggingface-hub<1.0,>=0.1.0->transformers==4.18.0.dev0) (4.1.1)
Requirement already satisfied: pyparsing!=3.0.5,>=2.0.2 in /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages (from packaging>=20.0->transformers==4.18.0.dev0) (3.0.7)
Requirement already satisfied: idna<4,>=2.5 in /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages (from requests->transformers==4.18.0.dev0) (3.3)
Requirement already satisfied: certifi>=2017.4.17 in /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages (from requests->transformers==4.18.0.dev0) (2021.10.8)
Requirement already satisfied: urllib3<1.27,>=1.21.1 in /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages (from requests->transformers==4.18.0.dev0) (1.26.9)
Requirement already satisfied: charset-normalizer~=2.0.0 in /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages (from requests->transformers==4.18.0.dev0) (2.0.12)
Requirement already satisfied: joblib in /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages (from sacremoses->transformers==4.18.0.dev0) (1.1.0)
Requirement already satisfied: six in /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages (from sacremoses->transformers==4.18.0.dev0) (1.16.0)
Requirement already satisfied: click in /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages (from sacremoses->transformers==4.18.0.dev0) (7.1.2)
Installing collected packages: transformers
  Running setup.py develop for transformers
Successfully installed transformers

part of pip list output

thinc                             8.0.15
tifffile                          2022.3.25
tinydb                            4.7.0
tokenizers                        0.11.6
torch                             1.7.1+cu101
torchvision                       0.8.2+cu101
tornado                           5.1.1
tqdm                              4.63.1
traitlets                         5.1.1
typer                             0.4.0
typing_extensions                 4.1.1
Unidecode                         1.1.1
urllib3                           1.26.9

Comments:
solved from:  https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/issues/16468