upgrade-requirements.py

Upgrade all your outdated requirements.txt in a single command.

Motivation

Even though pip list --outdated exists, sometimes you just want to run pip install --upgrade to upgrade a package, then persist it to your requirements.txt in one big sweep.

Installation

$ pip install upgrade-requirements

Usage

$ upgrade-requirements

(Or use the shortcut command upreq.)

Now's a good time to grab a ☕ while it runs.

After it finishes, run your tests to make sure an individual upgrade didn't break anything. Then move on to bigger things 🚀

Found a problem with an upgraded version?

No worries!

1. Revert individual entries in requirements.txt with the help of git
2. Run pip install -r requirements.txt to downgrade to working versions
3. Commit the upgraded-and-tweaked requirements.txt like normal and carry on 🎉

More usages

$ upgrade-requirements -h

usage: upgrade-requirements [-h] [-r REQUIREMENTS]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -r REQUIREMENTS, --requirements REQUIREMENTS
                        specify the location of the requirements.txt file

Room for improvement

• This only work with pinned (==) packages at the moment. The intention is to get it to work more generally. This can be broken down into three sub-tasks:

  • Get it to ignore non-pinned requirements instead of fail
  • Get it to work with other specifiers, e.g. >= (how would this work?)
  • Handle all types of requirement entries

Feel free to open an issue or PR with ideas.