Python setuptools: How can I list a private repository under install_requires?

Question

I am creating a setup.py file for a project which depends on private GitHub repositories. The relevant parts of the file look like this:

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Answer 1

I found a (hacky) workaround:

#!/usr/bin/env python

from setuptools import setup
import os

os.system('pip install git+https://github-private.corp.com/user/repo.git@master')

setup( name='original-name'
     , ...
     , install_requires=['repo'] )

I understand that there are ethical issues with having a system call in a setup script, but I can't think of another way to do this.