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Ohhh now I get it. It's basically like
package.jsonandpackage-lock.jsonin node, but for Python.It's a bit strange to me that this isn't the default in Python...
Yes exactly, like if I know my app needs the requests library, I will just put that in
requirements.inbut after compilerequirements.txtwill include the exact version of requests and every version of each dependency. So that every time pip install is run, all dependencies are always the same despite what happens upstream