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Requirements file

pip supports installing from PyPI, version control, local projects, and directly from distribution files.

The most common scenario is to install from PyPI using Requirement Specifiers "Requirements files" are files containing a list of items to be installed using pip install like so:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Logically, a Requirements file is just a list of pip install arguments placed in a file. Note that you should not rely on the items in the file being installed by pip in any particular order.

Ex of a requirements.txt file

django-redis-cache==1.7.1
xlrd==1.1.0
hiredis==0.2.0
django-admin-rangefilter=0.3.1

Poetry​

Python dependency management and packaging made easy.

poetry is a tool to handle dependency installation as well as building and packaging of Python packages. It only needs one file to do all of that: the new, standardized pyproject.toml

In other words, poetry uses pyproject.toml to replace setup.py, requirements.txt, setup.cfg, MANIFEST.in and the newly added Pip file

Features​

  • It will try to enforce semantic versioning as the best practice in version naming.
  • You can specify the readme, included and excluded files: no more MANIFEST.in. poetry will also use VCS ignore files (like .gitignore) to populate the exclude section.
  • Keywords (up to 5) can be specified and will act as tags on the packaging site.
  • The dependencies sections support caret, tilde, wildcard, inequality and multiple requirements.
  • You must specify the python versions for which your package is compatible.

poetry will also detect if you are inside a virtual env and install the packages accordingly. So, poetry can be installed globally and used everywhere.

poetry also comes with a full fledged dependency resolution library.

Commands​

poetry config virtualenvs.in-project true

poetry install

# running test cases
poetry shell
pytest

# to see all test cases
pytest -v

https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry

https://python-poetry.org/docs

setup.py and mainfest.ini​

https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/0.12.x/tutorial/packaging/#tutorial-packaging

Others​

virtualenv-and-pip

UV​