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Re:My Python Development Environment, 2018 Edition by wirrbel on Thursday February 22, 2018 @05:06PM (#16441922)
Don't forget that usually you'll start to sort your requirements into dev requirements and production requirements which makes these packaging scripts much more complicated.

https://github.com/jazzband/pip-tools would be what I used before pipenv came to be.

Re:My Python Development Environment, 2018 Edition by joshmaker on Friday February 23, 2018 @08:13AM (#16446085)
Two features I miss from pip-tools:

1. `pip-sync`, An easy way to ensure my local environment actually matches my defined requirements. I guess the pipenv version of this would be `pipenv uninstall --all && pipenv install` which isn't quite as elegant, but perhaps good enough.

2. The ability to create more than two requirement sets. For my projects it's often handy to three sets of requirements:

• Normal production requirements end users will need to run the app

• CI requirements needed for testing, but not running the app in production (Selenium, Flake8, etc)

• Local debugging tools (ipython, ipdb)

I could include my local debugging tools in the `--dev` requirements, but then I'm unnecessarily making my CI builds slower by adding requirements for packages that should never actually be referenced in committed code. Alternatively, I could leave them out of my dependencies entirely, but then I have to remember to reinstall them every time I sync my local env to ensure it matches the piplock file.

Re:My Python Development Environment, 2018 Edition by cmcginty on Sunday February 25, 2018 @07:10PM (#16462036)

  pip-compile --upgrade
  pip-compile --upgrade-package
are also necessary features to quickly track your dependencies (and transitive deps).

pipenv uses pip-tools, but they haven't exposed these features as far as I can tell.