NMnmichlo·Sep 30, 2024Submission
Generate pyproject.toml requirements based on imports across projects
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pydependence
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pydependence
🕵️🐍 Generate requirements.txt and pyproject.toml extras across modules, with configurable starting points, using import graph traversal and the python AST. Fully configurable and works with pre-commit.
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🕵️🐍 Generate requirements.txt and pyproject.toml extras across modules, with configurable starting points, using import graph traversal and the python AST. Fully configurable and works with pre-commit.
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2 sourcesAwesome project! Didn’t realise this existed when I took a stab at implementing a similar thing a few months back: https://github.com/nmichlo/pydependence using graph traversal of imports as well as naive support for lazy imports to generate optional extras as well as modify the pyproject.toml as part of pre-commit hooks.
Edit: the main goal was to generate optional extras for different entry points in a large codebase, find missing or extra imports, resolve dependencies across multiple repos, and see which files reference the mapped packages. Ideally if you have many internal repos which are not published and you cannot correctly use dependency resolution, then you can generate requirements before you pass them onto something like UV.
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