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Can I use pip to just install the dependencies without packaging my project as a module? I understand that pip installs "my module" to site packages or a directory under virtualenv. This is not what I need. I don't have a "my module" to install. I just need to make sure that the dependencies are installed on the machine/virtualenv that I'm using for development.

I studied the requirement file documentation and I couldn't find a solution. It seems that to take advantage of this feature in pip I have to write a setup.py, and as I've mentioned that really doesn't make sense for my type of project. Or am I misunderstanding something?

  pip freeze > requirements.txt
  pip install -f requirements.txt

Now whenever you go to develop, pip install -f requirements.txt, when you update dependent packages, pip freeze.

You are by no means required to make your source code a module or anything like that. If you use the above with a virtualenv you can isolate different models for different projects and have them frozen at different versions. You are also able to modify requirements.txt to include version specific information. packagename==3.4.0 now locks packagename to 3.4.0 when pip goes to install it.

I'm assuming your git directory looks like this:

  $DIR
  \
  | - requirements.txt
  | - fileone.py
  | - filetwo.py
  | - folder
     \ 
      | - __init__.py
      | - filethree.py

I have several projects set up exactly like that, especially since they will never have to be distributed using a .egg or anything else.

This is exactly what I need. Thank you!

Minor correction, it's dash r:

  pip install -r requirements.txt

This is indeed correct, I must have fat fingered that. Sorry.

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