Proper way to parse requirements file after pip upgrade to pip 10.x.x?

Question

So today I did found out that with the release of pip 10.x.x the req package changed its directory and can now be found under pip._internal.r

Answer 1

What I figured out the right way to do is adding the dependencies in the setup.py like:

REQUIRED_PACKAGES = [
    'boto3==1.7.33'
]

if __name__ == '__main__':
    setup(
        ...
        install_requires=REQUIRED_PACKAGES,
        ...
    )

and just have a . in your requirements.txt. It will then automatically install all packages from the setup.py if you install from the file.