requirements.txt depending on python version

Question

I\'m trying to port a python2 package to python3 (not my own) using six so that it\'s compatible with both. However one of the packages listed in requirements.txt is now in

Answer 1

You can use the environment markers to achieve this in requirements.txt since pip 6.0:

SomeProject==5.4; python_version < '2.7'
SomeProject; sys_platform == 'win32'

It is supported by setuptools too by declaring extra requirements in setup.py:

setup(
    ...
    install_requires=[
        'six',
        'humanize',
    ],
    extras_require={
        ':python_version == "2.7"': [
            'ipaddress',
        ],
    },
)

See also requirement specifiers. And Strings for the string versions of corresponding Python commands.