Pip install binary and preserve requirements.txt

Question

I'm making a Python package dependent on spacy . Spacy works with binary language models. So I have the URLs listed at the end of my requirements.txt

https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/es_core_news_sm-2.0.0/es_core_news_sm-2.0.0.tar.gz#egg=spacy-english-model

But if I freeze the environment the package does not appear with the URL for download:

spacy-english-model==2.0.0

So if I add a package I can't pip install it and then pip freeze . How can specify the package in requirements.txt so that its URL shows up when freeze ing?

Answer 1

You don't need to use pip freeze to distribute your package. When writing a package you'll need to add the models in your requirements.txt file, according to the documentation like so:

https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/es_core_news_sm-2.0.0/es_core_news_sm-2.0.0.tar.gz

you can see that happened here (check the dev-requirements.txt )

I don't know where did pip freeze get the spacy-english-model from. I'd start with a new python virtualenv and test everything again.