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Re:Alpine makes Python Docker builds slower, and images larger by daze42 on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @03:43PM (#22185586)
Your guess is correct. Pip does keep a cache of packages around. It's easy to fix by setting the `--no-cache-dir` switch when installing:

`pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt`

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