需求文件使用扩展的pip格式，这只在您需要用更强的约束来补充setup.py时有用，例如指定某些依赖项必须来自的确切url，或者pip freeze的输出将整个包集冻结为已知的工作版本。如果不需要额外的约束，则只使用setup.py。如果你觉得你真的需要发布一个requirements.txt，你可以让它变成一行:

.

它将是有效的，并准确地引用同一目录下的setup.py的内容。

使用parse_requirements是有问题的，因为pip API没有公开的文档和支持。在pip 1.6中，该函数实际上是移动的，因此对它的现有使用可能会中断。

消除setup.py和requirements.txt之间重复的一个更可靠的方法是在setup.py中指定你的依赖项，然后输入-e。到requirements.txt文件中。关于为什么这是一种更好的方式，来自pip开发人员的一些信息可以在这里找到:https://caremad.io/blog/setup-vs-requirement/

如果你不想强迫你的用户安装pip，你可以模仿它的行为:

import sys

from os import path as p

try:
    from setuptools import setup, find_packages
except ImportError:
    from distutils.core import setup, find_packages


def read(filename, parent=None):
    parent = (parent or __file__)

    try:
        with open(p.join(p.dirname(parent), filename)) as f:
            return f.read()
    except IOError:
        return ''


def parse_requirements(filename, parent=None):
    parent = (parent or __file__)
    filepath = p.join(p.dirname(parent), filename)
    content = read(filename, parent)

    for line_number, line in enumerate(content.splitlines(), 1):
        candidate = line.strip()

        if candidate.startswith('-r'):
            for item in parse_requirements(candidate[2:].strip(), filepath):
                yield item
        else:
            yield candidate

setup(
...
    install_requires=list(parse_requirements('requirements.txt'))
)

从表面上看，requirements.txt和setup.py似乎是愚蠢的副本，但重要的是要理解，虽然形式相似，但预期的功能非常不同。

当指定依赖项时，包作者的目标是说“无论你在哪里安装这个包，为了使这个包工作，这些都是你需要的其他包。”

相反，部署作者(在不同的时间可能是同一个人)有不同的工作，因为他们说“这是我们收集和测试的包的列表，我现在需要安装”。

包作者为各种各样的场景编写程序，因为他们将自己的工作以他们可能不知道的方式使用，并且无法知道将在他们的包旁边安装哪些包。为了成为一个好邻居并避免与其他包的依赖版本冲突，它们需要指定尽可能广泛的依赖版本。这就是setup.py中的install_required所做的。

The deployment author writes for a very different, very specific goal: a single instance of an installed application or service, installed on a particular computer. In order to precisely control a deployment, and be sure that the right packages are tested and deployed, the deployment author must specify the exact version and source-location of every package to be installed, including dependencies and dependency's dependencies. With this spec, a deployment can be repeatably applied to several machines, or tested on a test machine, and the deployment author can be confident that the same packages are deployed every time. This is what a requirements.txt does.

So you can see that, while they both look like a big list of packages and versions, these two things have very different jobs. And it's definitely easy to mix this up and get it wrong! But the right way to think about this is that requirements.txt is an "answer" to the "question" posed by the requirements in all the various setup.py package files. Rather than write it by hand, it's often generated by telling pip to look at all the setup.py files in a set of desired packages, find a set of packages that it thinks fits all the requirements, and then, after they're installed, "freeze" that list of packages into a text file (this is where the pip freeze name comes from).

所以结论是:

setup.py should declare the loosest possible dependency versions that are still workable. Its job is to say what a particular package can work with. requirements.txt is a deployment manifest that defines an entire installation job, and shouldn't be thought of as tied to any one package. Its job is to declare an exhaustive list of all the necessary packages to make a deployment work. Because these two things have such different content and reasons for existing, it's not feasible to simply copy one into the other.

引用:

来自Python打包用户指南的install_requires vs Requirements文件。

小心parse_requirements行为!

请注意，pip.req。Parse_requirements将把下划线改为破折号。这件事让我生气了几天，后来我才发现。示例演示:

from pip.req import parse_requirements  # tested with v.1.4.1

reqs = '''
example_with_underscores
example-with-dashes
'''

with open('requirements.txt', 'w') as f:
    f.write(reqs)

req_deps = parse_requirements('requirements.txt')
result = [str(ir.req) for ir in req_deps if ir.req is not None]
print result

生产

['example-with-underscores', 'example-with-dashes']

我是这样做的:

import re

def requirements(filename):
    with open(filename) as f:
        ll = f.read().splitlines()
    d = {}
    for l in ll:
        k, v = re.split(r'==|>=', l)
        d[k] = v
    return d

def packageInfo():
    try:
        from pip._internal.operations import freeze
    except ImportError:
        from pip.operations import freeze

    d = {}
    for kv in freeze.freeze():
        k, v = re.split(r'==|>=', kv)
        d[k] = v
    return d

req = getpackver('requirements.txt')
pkginfo = packageInfo()

for k, v in req.items():
    print(f'{k:<16}: {v:<6} -> {pkginfo[k]}')