Package: pip-requirements-parser
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Copyright (c) The pip developers (see AUTHORS.rst file)
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Homepage:https://github.com/nexB/pip-requirementsandhttps://www.aboutcode.org/pip-requirements-parseris a mostly correct pip requirements parsing
library … because it uses pip’s own code!pip is thepackage installerfor Python that is using “requirements” text
files listing the packages to install.Perhttps://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/reference/requirements-file-format/:“The requirements file format is closely tied to a number of internal
details of pip (e.g., pip’s command line options). The basic format is
relatively stable and portable but the full syntax, as described here,
is only intended for consumption by pip, and other tools should take
that into account before using it for their own purposes.”And perhttps://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/user_guide/#using-pip-from-your-program:“[..] pip is a command line program. While it is implemented in Python, and
so is available from your Python code via import pip, you must not use pip’s
internal APIs in this way.”“What this means in practice is that everything inside of pip is considered
an implementation detail. Even the fact that the import name is pip is
subject to change without notice. While we do try not to break things as
much as possible, all the internal APIs can change at any time, for any
reason. It also means that we generally won’t fix issues that are a result
of using pip in an unsupported way.”Because of all this, pip requirements are notoriously difficult to parse right
in all their diversity because:pip does not have a public API and therefore cannot be reliably used as a
stable library. Some libraries attempt to do this though. (See Alternative)The pip requirements file syntax is closely aligned with pip’s command line
interface and command line options. In some ways a pip requirements file is a
list of pip command line options and arguments. Therefore, it is hard to parse
these short of reproducing the pip command line options parsing. At least one
other library is using a command line option parser to parse options correctly.Thispip-requirements-parserPython library is yet another pip requirements
files parser, but this time doing it hopefully correctly and doing as well as
pip does it, because this is using pip’s own code.Thepip-requirements-parserlibrary offers these key advantages:Other requirements parsers typically do not work in all the cases thatpipsupports: parsing any requirement as seen in the wild will fail parsing some
valid pip requirements. Since thepip-requirements-parserlibrary is based
on pip’s own code, it worksexactlylike pip and will parse all the
requirements files that pip can parse.Thepip-requirements-parserlibrary offers a simple and stable code API
that will not change without notice.Thepip-requirements-parserlibrary is designed to work offline without
making any external network call, while the original pip code needs network
access.Thepip-requirements-parserlibrary is a single file that can easily be
copied around as needed for easy vendoring. This is useful as requirements
parsing is often needed to bootstrap in a constrained environment.Thepip-requirements-parserlibrary has only one external dependency on
the common “packaging” package. Otherwise it uses only the standard library.
The benefits are the same as being a single file: fewer moving parts helps with
using it in more cases.Thepip-requirements-parserlibrary reuses and passes the full subset of
the pip test suite that deals with requirements. This is a not really
surprising since this is pip’s own code. The suite suite has been carefully
ported and adjusted to work with the updated code subset.The standard pip requirements parser depends on therequestsHTTP library
and makes network connection to PyPI and other referenced repositories when
parsing. Thepip-requirements-parserlibrary works entirely offline and the
requests dependency and calling has been entirely removed.Thepip-requirements-parserlibrary has preserved the complete pip git
history for the subset of the code we kept. The original pip code was merged
from multiple modules keeping all the git history at the line/blame level using
some git fu and git filter repo. The benefit is that we will be able to more
easily track and merge future pip updates.Thepip-requirements-parserlibrary has an extensive test suite  made of:pip’s own testsnew unit testsnew requirements test files (over 40 new test files)the tests suite of some of the main other requirement parsers including:http://github.com/di/pip-apihttps://github.com/pyupio/dparsehttps://github.com/landscapeio/requirements-detectorhttps://github.com/madpah/requirements-parserAs a result, it has likely the most comprehensive requiremente parsing test
suite around.UsageThe entry point is theRequirementsFileobject:>>> from pip_requirements_parser import RequirementsFile
>>> rf = RequirementsFile.from_file("requirements.txt")From there, you can dump to a dict::>>> rf.to_dict()Or access the requirements (either InstallRequirement or EditableRequirement
objects):>>> for req in rf.requirements:
...    print(req.to_dict())
...    print(req.dumps())And the various other parsed elements such as options, commenst and invalid lines
that have a parsing error:>>> rf.options
>>> rf.comment_lines
>>> rf.invalid_linesEach of these and therequirementshahve a “requirement_line” attribute
with the original text.Finally you can get a requirements file back as a string:>>> rf.dumps()AlternativeThere are several other parsers that either:Implement their own parsing and can therefore miss some subtle differencesOr wrap and import pip as a library, working around the lack of pip APINone of these use the approach of reusing and forking the subset of pip that is
needed to parse requirements.  The ones that wrap pip require network access
like pip does. They potentially need updating each time there is a new pip
release. The ones that reimplement pip parsing may not support all pip
specifics.Implement a new pip parserpip-apihttps://github.com/di/pip-apidoes not support hashes and certain pip options.
It does however use argparse for parsing options and is therefore correctly
handling most options. The parser is a single script that only depends on
packaging (that is vendored). It is not designed to be used as a single script
though andpipis a dependency.requirements-parserhttps://github.com/madpah/requirements-parsedoes not
support hashes and certain pip optionsdparsehttps://github.com/pyupio/dparsehttps://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/django-cloud-deploy/blob/d316b1e45357761e2b124143e6e12ce34ef6f975/django_cloud_deploy/skeleton/requirements_parser.pyReuse and wrap pip’s own parserrequirementslibhttps://github.com/sarugaku/requirementslibuses pip-shimhttps://github.com/sarugaku/pip-shimswhich is a set of “shims” around each
pip versions in an attempt to offer an API to pip. Comes with 20+ dependencies,micropipenvhttps://github.com/thoth-station/micropipenv/blob/d0c37c1bf0aadf5149aebe2df0bf1cb12ded4c40/micropipenv.py#L53pip-toolshttps://github.com/jazzband/pip-tools/blob/9e1be05375104c56e07cdb0904e1b50b86f8b550/piptools/_compat/pip_compat.py