Pipenv Pipfile to requirements.txt file

So, let’s say we have a project with some dependencies like pandas or any. We have pandas as a dev dependency. So, if we look at the Pipfile, we can see a text file like the following in C:\Users\<user_name>:

So, suppose we have a pipenv setup in a Python project and we want to get a requirements.txt file. Pipfile is great and more informative but there might be instances where you need a simple text file to install dependencies. We’ll see how to convert the Pipfile into a requirements.txt file

pipenv lock -r > requirements.txt

This will generate a requirements.txt file with the following content:

If you want a simple file just like the pip freeze command, you can run the following command as well:

pipenv run pip freeze  > requirements.txt 

The drawback here is that it also adds the dev dependencies as it is adding the dependencies with the help of pip and not Pipenv. So, that is how we are able to convert a Pipfile in pipenv into a simple requirements.txt file 

As we can see that the dependency is installed as a dev-dependency. We can uninstall the dev-dependency at any time in the project with the command:

pipenv uninstall --all-dev 

So, we can see we can more easily manage dependencies in python with pipenv. We can also uninstall all the dependencies with the command:

pipenv uninstall --all

We will be exploring the Python package management tool Pipenv. It is a dependency management tool in python. It is a high-level tool for managing dependency inside a Python project Pipenv is Python’s recommended package manager. It is simple and easier to use as compared to pip and virtual environment combined. 

Pipenv creates a virtual environment separately for each initialization of the project. It is by default located in a specific folder but that can be configured, we will dive into this in this article later.