Sorry Python but it is what it is.

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        1 year ago

        Isn’t it called a requirements.txt because it’s used to export your project requirements (dependencies), not all packages installed in your local pip environment?

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        1 year ago

        Yes, but this file is created by you and not pip. It’s not like package.json from npm. You don’t even need to create this file.

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          1 year ago

          Well if the file would be created by hand, that’s very cumbersome.

          But what is sometimes done to create it automatically is using

          pip freeze > requirements. txt

          inside your virtual environment.

          You said I don’t need to create this file? How else will I distribute my environment so that it can be easily used? There are a lot of other standard, like setup.py etc, so it’s only one possibility. But the fact that there are multiple competing standard shows that how pip handles this is kinds bad.

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            1 year ago

            If you try to keep your depencies low, it’s not very cumbersome. I usually do that.

            A setup.py/pyproject.toml can replace requirements. txt, but it is for creating packages and does way more than just installing dependencies, so they are not really competing.

            For scripts which have just 1 or 2 packges as depencies it’s also usuall to just tell people to run pip install .

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            1 year ago

            I work with python professionally and would never do that. I add my actual imports to the requirements and if I forget I do it later as the package fails CI/CD tests.