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    Why we have both requirements.txt and setup.py practices python stackoverflow.com
    friendlysock avatar via friendlysock 11 months ago | cached | 4 comments

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    talklittle avatar talklittle 11 months ago | link

    tl;dr: setup.py specifies dependency version ranges, requirements.txt is a snapshot/lock file for repeatable builds.

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      apy avatar apy 11 months ago | link

      That doesn’t really tell me why though…

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      friendlysock avatar friendlysock 11 months ago | link

      A friend dug this up when faced with very silly duplication, and was wondering how it happened.

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        ngoldbaum avatar ngoldbaum edited 11 months ago | link

        And discovered that it isn’t silly duplication :)

        There’s a difference between the very precise dependency information for a particular deployment of a python app encoded in requirements.txt and the more broad “we support version x through y of dependency b” version information in setup.py.