Question

To create Python virtual environments I use virtualenv and pip. The workflow is very simple:

$ virtualenv project
$ cd project
$ . bin/activate
$ pip install -r /path/to/requirements/req1.txt
$ pip install -r /path/to/requirements/req2.txt

The number of different requirement files can grow enough to make handy to have a way to include them at once, so I’d rather prefer to say:

$ pip install -r /path/to/requirements/req1_req2.txt

with req1_req2.txt containing something like:

include /path/to/requirements/req1.txt
include /path/to/requirements/req2.txt

or otherwise:

$ pip install -r /path/to/requirements/*.txt

None of that works and however much simple it could be, I can’t figure out how to do what I want.

Any suggestion?

Answer 1

The -r flag isn’t restricted to command-line use only, it can also be used inside requirements files. So running pip install -r req-1-and-2.txt when req-1-and-2.txt contains this:

-r req-1.txt
-r req-2.txt

will install everything specified in req-1.txt and req-2.txt.