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Sorry Python but it is what it is.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you want to export your local environment, isn't usually a requirements.txt used?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 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?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 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 .