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Pipenv: Python Dev Workflow for Humans
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**Pipenv** — the officially recommended Python packaging tool from `Python.org `_, free (as in freedom).
Pipenv is a tool that aims to bring the best of all packaging worlds (bundler, composer, npm, cargo, yarn, etc.) to the Python world. *Windows is a first–class citizen, in our world.*
It automatically creates and manages a virtualenv for your projects, as well as adds/removes packages from your ``Pipfile`` as you install/uninstall packages. It also generates the ever–important ``Pipfile.lock``, which is used to produce deterministic builds.
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The problems that Pipenv seeks to solve are multi-faceted:
- You no longer need to use ``pip`` and ``virtualenv`` separately. They work together.
- Managing a ``requirements.txt`` file `can be problematic `_, so Pipenv uses the upcoming ``Pipfile`` and ``Pipfile.lock`` instead, which is superior for basic use cases.
- Hashes are used everywhere, always. Security. Automatically expose security vulnerabilities.
- Give you insight into your dependency graph (e.g. ``$ pipenv graph``).
- Streamline development workflow by loading ``.env`` files.
Install Pipenv Today!
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Pipenv is a python package and so can be installed using ``pip`` as you would expect.
::
$ pip install pipenv
✨🍰✨
If you have excellent taste, there are various other installation methods which
prevent pipenv and its dependencies from interfering with the rest of your
Python installation. These include
`Pipsi `_,
`Nix `_
and `Homebrew `_.
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User Testimonials
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**Jannis Leidel**, former pip maintainer—
*Pipenv is the porcelain I always wanted to build for pip. It fits my brain and mostly replaces virtualenvwrapper and manual pip calls for me. Use it.*
**Justin Myles Holmes**—
*Pipenv is finally an abstraction meant to engage the mind instead of merely the filesystem.*
**Isaac Sanders**—
*Pipenv is literally the best thing about my day today. Thanks, Kenneth!*
☤ Pipenv Features
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- Enables truly *deterministic builds*, while easily specifying *only what you want*.
- Generates and checks file hashes for locked dependencies.
- Automatically install required Pythons, if ``pyenv`` is available.
- Automatically finds your project home, recursively, by looking for a ``Pipfile``.
- Automatically generates a ``Pipfile``, if one doesn't exist.
- Automatically creates a virtualenv in a standard location.
- Automatically adds/removes packages to a ``Pipfile`` when they are un/installed.
- Automatically loads ``.env`` files, if they exist.
The main commands are ``install``, ``uninstall``, and ``lock``, which generates a ``Pipfile.lock``. These are intended to replace ``$ pip install`` usage, as well as manual virtualenv management (to activate a virtualenv, run ``$ pipenv shell``).
Basic Concepts
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- A virtualenv will automatically be created, when one doesn't exist.
- When no parameters are passed to ``install``, all packages ``[packages]`` specified will be installed.
- To initialize a Python 3 virtual environment, run ``$ pipenv --three``.
- To initialize a Python 2 virtual environment, run ``$ pipenv --two``.
- Otherwise, whatever virtualenv defaults to will be the default.
Other Commands
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- ``graph`` will show you a dependency graph, of your installed dependencies.
- ``shell`` will spawn a shell with the virtualenv activated.
- ``run`` will run a given command from the virtualenv, with any arguments forwarded (e.g. ``$ pipenv run python``).
- ``check`` checks for security vulnerabilities and asserts that PEP 508 requirements are being met by the current environment.
Further Documentation Guides
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advanced
☤ Pipenv Usage
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.. click:: pipenv:cli
:prog: pipenv
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* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
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