What does pip install . (dot) mean?
Question:
I have a shell script whose last line is:
pip install .
What does it do?
pip install <package-name> installs the specified packagepip install -r requirements.txt installs all packages specified in requirements.txt
But I am not sure what the above command does.
Answers:
"Install the project found in the current directory".
This is just a specific case of pip install /path/to-source/tree.
To quote the the pip install documentation describing this usage:
pip install [options] [-e] <local project path> ...
Explicitly, pip install . will execute the setup.py file in the current directory (which will usually load a requirements.txt file).
The dot notation in the pip install dependency is similar to: python3 setup.py develop
I have a shell script whose last line is:
pip install .
What does it do?
pip install <package-name>installs the specified packagepip install -r requirements.txtinstalls all packages specified inrequirements.txt
But I am not sure what the above command does.
"Install the project found in the current directory".
This is just a specific case of pip install /path/to-source/tree.
To quote the the pip install documentation describing this usage:
pip install [options] [-e] <local project path> ...
Explicitly, pip install . will execute the setup.py file in the current directory (which will usually load a requirements.txt file).
The dot notation in the pip install dependency is similar to: python3 setup.py develop