Tools around pip and venv

The pip and venv discussed so far are the underpinning of Python package management. Often that’s all you need. But sometimes you may want another layer of tools to further facilitate some aspects. On one hand, when working on a given project, the development and dependency management can be simplified with pipenv or poetry. On the other hand, when working with packages shared across projects, pip-review and pipx may come in handy.

Related projects

As a matter of fact, besides pipenv and poetry, exist a variety of Python package installers and dependency managers. On the one hand it’s nice to be offered a choice, on the other hand the community could also profit from some convergence and mutual agreement on a common tool. The following list is sorted by GitHub stars:

• pip-tools: provides pip-compile to generate a requirements.txt with versioned dependencies, which can then be parsed by pip-sync to install those packages.

• pdm: the “Python dependency manager” installs packages and creates a pdm.lock file.

• hatch: a Python project manager that helps to build and publish your code.

Index

• pipenv
• poetry
• pip-review
• pipx