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Taming dependencies with pip

A Talk presented by Carl Meyer

Time

Thursday, September 8th 3:30 p.m.–4:10 p.m.

Level

Intermediate

Description

Dependency management sucks. Pip provides some options for making it suck a bit less, but not all of them are immediately obvious. This talk will cover a number of strategies for making your deployments faster and more reliable, and demonstrate how to implement them in practice.

Abstract

Areas we'll cover:

- Easy wins: requirements files, version-pinning, virtualenv, PyPI mirrors.

- One single point of failure is bad, multiple single points of failure are worse: kick your PyPI addiction with find-links, bundling sdists, "vendoring", or your own package index. We'll go over how each of these looks in a real project, and the tradeoffs with each.

This talk will assume basic knowledge of pip and requirements files; we'll be covering intermediate and advanced usage.