Alternatives to Pipenv?

[lucidyan]

For those looking for alternatives to migrating from Pipenv, I found several options:

Official recommendations from Pypa:

Package	Stars
https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry	9400
https://github.com/pypa/pip	6100
https://github.com/jazzband/pip-tools	4000

Others:

Package	Stars
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/doc/languages-frameworks/python.section.md	4700
https://github.com/dephell/dephell	1100
https://github.com/David-OConnor/pyflow	365

Any other suggestions?

[lucidyan]

All information is taken from #4058

[erinxocon]

I will say that I use this project every day still. I know there are bugs with it but the team is small. Pipenv aims to replace the need to invoke pip, virtualenv, and pip-tools directly by wrapping them but we completely rely on them for underlying functionality. Pipenv gives me the ability to deploy my web applications in a deterministic environment, instead of requirements.txt you get a lock file that is secure and again deterministic. If I'm doing library development I would likely use poetry or flit so I can abide by PEP 517 and PEP 518 and use pyproject.toml to config my build system, none of which pipenv does or tries to do. In essence use the tool that works for you, but know that they all do have kind of specific use cases.

[jessekrubin]

Highly recommend using poetry and/or dephell and/or pip-tools.

Also highly recommend using not pipenv, except when you’re craving a headache/migraine.

Pipenv could/should be super dope, but in my experience it does not make life easier.

[hackf5]

Highly recommend using poetry and/or dephell and/or pip-tools.

Also highly recommend using not pipenv, except when you’re craving a headache/migraine.

Pipenv could/should be super dope, but in my experience it does not make life easier.

You seem to be right. The inability to set a minimum python version in pipenv is a significant annoyance.