> On Mar 4, 2017, at 12:25 PM, Pradyun Gedam <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Since PyPI does not have such information in a static declarative format, 
> that approach is not feasible. pip will have to download packages and execute 
> setup.py to know what the dependencies are.


I will note, that we can expose that information in PyPI for *wheels*, but not 
for sdists currently. It would be a lot more work though because it’d 
essentially require a whole new repository API and I doubt Pradyun wants to 
tackle that right now :) Keeping a future in mind where we can get a least some 
of that information without downloading would be good though, at least to keep 
in mind when structuring code.

—
Donald Stufft



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