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Re: Pip.wtf: Inline dependencies for small Python scripts

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Post by lawtalkinghuman » Thu, Nov 23, 2023, 1:49 PM UTC

tarxvf wrote: post #9

guappa wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was (and is) no reason for it to exist since python supports running .zip files that contain all the dependencies.

I had never heard of that, reading up on it now. Thanks for posting!

pex is a build tool built on the top of the zip trick. A pex file doesn't contain a bundled interpreter, but it zips up the entire virtualenv. Also no Windows support.

https://pex.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Re: Pip.wtf: Inline dependencies for small Python scripts

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Post by Kim_Bruning » Thu, Nov 23, 2023, 2:53 PM UTC

greensh wrote: post #8

nix can do something similar via nix shell https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/command-ref/nix-shell.ht...

I have used nix shell like this before; super handy!

Re: Pip.wtf: Inline dependencies for small Python scripts

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Post by networked » Thu, Nov 23, 2023, 9:01 PM UTC

Flimm wrote: post #7

A development version of pipx supports a feature that address this pain point. See pull request #916 [1] In your script example.py , you would specify your dependencies in a special comment like this: # Requirements: # requests import requests ... Then you could run the script like this: pipx run file:example.py This would install the dependencies in a temporary virtual environment, and run the script in that virtual…

There is also fades (https://github.com/PyAr/fades) and pip-run (https://github.com/jaraco/pip-run). Debian and Ubuntu package fades.