Upgrading and housekeeping python dependencies

This post will provide give a quick overview into two tools to help keep your requirements.txt up to date and clean.

Updating dependencies using pip-upgrader

The first tool is pip-upgrader which provides an easy interface for finding out of date dependencies and updating them.

Install via pip:

python3 -m pip install pip-upgrader

Then run:

python3 -m pip-upgrade

You will be presented with a list of your dependencies which have new versions and you can select which to upgrade.

You will of course still need to check for breaking changes in your dependencies but this tool makes it easy to find what packages have new versions.

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Figuring out what depends on what with pipdeptree

The second tool is pipdeptree which displays a dependency tree, making it easy to see which dependencies depend on other packages and help you clean up unused transitive dependencies.

python3 -m pip install pipdeptree
python3 -m pipdeptree