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Build dependencies automatically with setuptools

In my package setup.py I have 

setup(
    ...
    requires=['enum', 'hashlib', ...]
)

I have to edit the requires field manually if I add a dependency in my package and the thing is: I often forget to do that.

Is there an option that can automatically look for imported packages that are not part of the current package?

Solution

  • This question is quite old now and I'm sure you managed to find a way around this problem, but anyway. Just to have an answer for this question: I do it the same way as suggested in the comment by just parsing the requirements.txt. Here is the code of one of my packages:

    from setuptools import setup

setup(
  name="my_package",
  version="1.0.0",
  description="Just a package",

  ...

  # this will return every module listed in requirements.txt
  install_requires=[line.strip() for line in open("requirements.txt", "r").readlines()],

)

    I hope this resolves the question :)