pip requirements file

[Chris Angelico]

On Sat, Aug 5, 2017 at 12:42 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
>   pip freeze
>
> will output a list of current packages and their requirements.  I have one
> package that falsely [1] lists another package as a requirement, which was
> blocking installation as the false requirement wasn't available.
>
> Is there a way to modify that output (which would be piped to, for example,
> requirements.txt) to have
>
>   pip install -r requirements.txt
>
> so pip ignores that one (and only that one) dependency?

I'd just edit the file afterwards and delete the line. But if the
package claims to need PyXML, it'll still be installed.

ChrisA