Sometimes I download the python source code from github and don’t know how to install all the dependencies. If there is no requirements.txt file I have to create it by hands. The question is: Given the python source code directory is it possible to create requirements.txt automatically from the import section?

If you use virtual environment, pip freeze > requirements.txt just fine. IF NOT, pigar will be a good choice for you.

By the way, I do not ensure it will work with 2.6.

UPDATE:

Pipenv or other tools is recommended for improving your development flow.

For Python 3 use below

pip3 freeze > requirements.txt

You can use the following code to generate a requirements.txt file:

pip install pipreqs

pipreqs /path/to/project

more info related to pipreqs can be found here.

Sometimes you come across pip freeze, but this saves all packages in the environment including those that you don’t use in your current project.

In my case, I use Anaconda, so running the following command from conda terminal inside my environment solved it, and created this requirements txt file for me automatically:

conda list -e > requirements.txt

This was taken from this Github link pratos/condaenv.txt

If an error been seen, and you are using anaconda, try to use the .yml option:

conda env export > <environment-name>.yml

For other person to use the environment…Or if you are creating a new enviroment on other machine: conda env create -f .yml

.yml option been found here

Make sure to run pip3 for python3.7.

pip3 freeze >> yourfile.txt

Before executing the above command make sure you have created a virtual environment.

python3:

pip3 install virtualenv
python3 -m venv <myenvname> 

python2:

pip install virtualenv
virtualenv <myenvname>

After that put your source code in the directory. If you run the python file now, probably It won’t launch If you are using non-native modules. You can install those modules runing

pip3 install <module> or pip install <module> 

This will not affect you entire module list except the environment you are In.

Now you can execute the command at the top and now you have a requirements file which contains only the modules you installed in the virtual environment. Now you can run the command at the top.

I advise everyone to use environments as It makes things easier when It comes to stuff like this.

Hope this helped.

If Facing the same issue as mine i.e. not on the virtual environment and wants requirements.txt for a specific project or from the selected folder(includes children) and pipreqs is not supporting.

You can use :

import os
import sys
from fuzzywuzzy import fuzz
import subprocess

path = "C:/Users/Username/Desktop/DjangoProjects/restAPItest"


files = os.listdir(path)
pyfiles = []
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path):
      for file in files:
        if file.endswith('.py'):
              pyfiles.append(os.path.join(root, file))

stopWords = ['from', 'import',',','.']

importables = []

for file in pyfiles:
    with open(file) as f:
        content = f.readlines()

        for line in content:
            if "import" in line:
                for sw in stopWords:
                    line = ' '.join(line.split(sw))

                importables.append(line.strip().split(' ')[0])

importables = set(importables)

subprocess.call(f"pip freeze > {path}/requirements.txt", shell=True)

with open(path+'/requirements.txt') as req:
    modules = req.readlines()
    modules = {m.split('=')[0].lower() : m for m in modules}


notList = [''.join(i.split('_')) for i in sys.builtin_module_names]+['os']

new_requirements = []
for req_module in importables:
    try :
        new_requirements.append(modules[req_module])

    except KeyError:
        for k,v in modules.items():
            if len(req_module)>1 and req_module not in notList:
                if fuzz.partial_ratio(req_module,k) > 90:
                    new_requirements.append(modules[k])

new_requirements = [i for i in set(new_requirements)]

new_requirements

with open(path+'/requirements.txt','w') as req:
    req.write(''.join(new_requirements))

P.S: It may have a few additional libraries as it checks on fuzzylogic.

best way for Python 3 is:

pip3 freeze > requirements.txt

it worked for me…

if you are using PyCharm, when you open or clone the project into the PyCharm it shows an alert and ask you for installing all necessary packages.