# Compile Deterministic Python Lock Files from Requirements Inputs with pip-tools

> Resolve Python dependency inputs into deterministic lock files and sync environments without hand-editing transitive pins.

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# Compile Deterministic Python Lock Files from Requirements Inputs with pip-tools

Resolve Python dependency inputs into deterministic lock files and sync environments without hand-editing transitive pins.

## Prerequisites

Python, pip-tools, dependency input files

## Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- (venv) $ python -m pip install pip-tools
- pipx run --spec pip-tools pip-compile if pipx was installed with the
- pip-compile should be run from the same virtual environment as your
- official standard, you can use pip-compile to pin the dependencies

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- even when you've pinned them. You do pin them, right? (In building your Python
- Similar to pip, pip-tools must be installed in each of your project's
- [virtual environments](https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/installing-packages/#creating-virtual-environments):

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- console
- $ source /path/to/venv/bin/activate
- **Note**: all of the remaining example commands assume you've activated your

- Source: https://github.com/jazzband/pip-tools
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jazzband/pip-tools/HEAD/README.md

## Documentation

- https://pip-tools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

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