Pip Installing .whl files from requirements.txt Python

Question

I am trying to make a wheel installation from requirements.txt . Is there a way to pip install a .whl file. I am running Windows 10 and Python version 3.9.12.

CMD command

pip install -r requirements.txt

Error:

ERROR: Invalid requirement: 'TA-Lib @ file:./TA_Lib-0.4.24-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64.whl'

Contents of requirement.txt:

stdiomask==0.0.6
strict-rfc3339==0.7
swagger-spec-validator==2.7.3
sympy==1.9
ta==0.10.1
./TA_Lib-0.4.24-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64.whl

Directory Tree:

C:.
├───TA_Lib-0.4.24-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64
└───requirements.txt

Packages and versions

Package    Version
---------- -------
Cython     0.29.30
pip        22.1
setuptools 58.1.0

Answer 1

You can just refer to local file in requirement file this way:

./TA_Lib-0.4.24-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64.whl

Based on example