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A set of tools to keep your pinned Python dependencies fresh.

64 mentions on Hacker News by 59 people: 3 stories, 61 comments · first 2013-01-28 · latest 2026-03-19

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  1. There is a popular tool for this approach: https://github.com/nvie/pip-tools
    comment by kennell · 2016-05-11 · in Show HN: Update your requirements.txt file with Pur in Python
  2. …[2]. If you want to automate updating your requirements file, take a look at requires.io [3]. [1] https://github.com/nvie/pip-tools [2] https://github.com/jgonggrijp/pip-review [3] http://requires.io/
    comment by di · 2016-05-09 · in Show HN: Update your requirements.txt file with Pur in Python
  3. …function called "pip-sync" which will then install/update everything in the requirements.txt file. https://github.com/nvie/pip-tools
    comment by TheCowboy · 2016-03-21 · in Show HN: Python requirements for Humans
  4. …with specific versions and all dependencies. It has really streamlined my pip workflow. https://github.com/nvie/pip-tools
    comment by 89vision · 2016-03-02 · in A Better Pip Workflow
  5. Instead of doing that manually, use pip-tools https://github.com/nvie/pip-tools/ Some posts on theory and use http://nvie.com/posts/pip-tools-10-released/
    comment by njharman · 2016-03-02 · in A Better Pip Workflow
  6. They automate that, plus more. Everyone interested in the original link should really check it out: https://github.com/nvie/pip-tools
    comment by thejash · 2016-03-02 · in A Better Pip Workflow
  7. Have a look at pip-tools https://github.com/nvie/pip-tools which does basically that and a bit more.
    comment by jbbarth · 2016-02-26 · in A Better Pip Workflow
  8. …about why this is the best currently available option for specifying Python dependencies [2].) [0] https://github.com/nvie/pip-tools#example-usage-for-pip-comp... [1] http://nvie.com/posts/better-package-management/ [2]…
    comment by jonafato · 2016-01-27 · in Disabling npm's progress bar yields a 2x npm install speed improvement
  9. …of lots of them if you're using 1.2 (and some may even be obsolete). pip-tools is handy for this ( https://github.com/nvie/pip-tools ).
    comment by kingrolo · 2013-10-25 · in Django 1.4.9 and 1.5.5 released
  10. …to get information about new gem versions. Pythonistas will have to use something like pip-tools < https://github.com/nvie/pip-tools >, as far as I can tell.
    comment by kmfrk · 2013-02-19 · in Things I found on GitHub: shell history
  11. …like Heroku could make it happen. Or you could set up a cron-like worker to perform a pip-review ( https://github.com/nvie/pip-tools ) of sorts. I don't know if I like the idea of a single point of failure; whatever service pushes the…
    comment by kmfrk · 2013-01-28 · in Vulnerability in JSON Parser in Ruby on Rails 3.0 and 2.3