Upgrade python packages from requirements.txt using pip command

Question

How do I upgrade all my python packages from requirements.txt file using pip command?

tried with below command

$ pip install --upgrade -r requirements.txt

Since, the python packages are suffixed with the version number (Django==1.5.1) they don't seem to upgrade. Is there any better approach than manually editing requirements.txt file?

EDIT

As Andy mentioned in his answer packages are pinned to a specific version, hence it is not possible to upgrade packages through pip command.

But, we can achieve this with pip-tools using the following command.

$ pip-review --auto

this will automatically upgrade all packages from requirements.txt (make sure to install pip-tools using pip install command).

Answer 1

No. Your requirements file has been pinned to specific versions. If your requirements are set to that version, you should not be trying to upgrade beyond those versions. If you need to upgrade, then you need to switch to unpinned versions in your requirements file.

Example:

lxml>=2.2.0

This would upgrade lxml to any version newer than 2.2.0

lxml>=2.2.0,<2.3.0

This would upgrade lxml to the most recent version between 2.2.0 and 2.3.0.

Answer 2

you can try:

pip install --upgrade --force-reinstall -r requirements.txt

You can also ignore installed package and install the new one :

pip install -I, --ignore-installed -r requirements.txt

Answer 3

I already answered this question here. Here's my solution:

Because there was no easy way for upgrading package by package, and updating the requirements.txt file, I wrote this pip-upgrader which also updates the versions in your requirements.txt file for the packages chosen (or all packages).

Installation

pip install pip-upgrader

Usage

Activate your virtualenv (important, because it will also install the new versions of upgraded packages in current virtualenv).

cd into your project directory, then run:

pip-upgrade

Advanced usage

If the requirements are placed in a non-standard location, send them as arguments:

pip-upgrade path/to/requirements.txt

If you already know what package you want to upgrade, simply send them as arguments:

pip-upgrade -p django -p celery -p dateutil

If you need to upgrade to pre-release / post-release version, add --prerelease argument to your command.

Full disclosure: I wrote this package.

Answer 4

Since I couldn't do that using bash, I wrote a python module to create a new requirements file with no versions and use it:

data = open('requirements-prod.pip', 'r')
data2 = open('requirements-prod-no-version.pip', 'w')
for line in data.readlines():
    new_line = line[:line.index('==')]
    data2.write(new_line + '\n')
data2.flush()

Then install the libs from the new file pip install -U -r requirements-prod-no-version.pip

Finally freeze the versions to the original file pip freeze > requirements-prod.pip

Answer 5

I edit the requirements.txt as below and run $sh ./requirements.txt

pip install -U amqp;
pip install -U appdirs;
pip install -U arrow;
pip install -U Babel;
pip install -U billiard;
pip install -U celery;
pip install -U Django;
pip install -U django-cors-headers;
pip install -U django-crispy-forms;
pip install -U django-filter;
pip install -U django-markdown-deux;
pip install -U django-pagedown;
pip install -U django-timezone-field;
pip install -U djangorestframework;
pip install -U fcm-django;
pip install -U flower;
pip install -U gunicorn;
pip install -U kombu;
pip install -U Markdown;
pip install -U markdown2;
pip install -U packaging;