Sorry Python but it is what it is.

  • 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.

    • @Vash63@lemmy.world
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      31 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.

    • @JakobDev@feddit.de
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      21 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 .