Sorry Python but it is what it is.
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If you want to export your local environment, isn’t usually a requirements.txt used?
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Yes, but this file is created by you and not pip. It’s not like package.json from npm. You don’t even need to create this file.
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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.
