Practice Installing Packages (2.1) - Chapter 11: Packaging, Distribution, and Virtual Environments

Practice: Installing Packages

Lesson 2.1Packaging, Distribution, and Virtual Environments

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Question 1.
What command is used to install a package using pip?
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Think about how you would add a library.
Question 2.
What file is commonly used to list project dependencies in Python?
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It starts with an 'r'.
3Question 3.
What command is used to install packages using pip?
- pip add <package>
- pip install <package>
- pip get <package>
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Think about the action of adding a library into your project.
4Question 4.
True or False: A requirements.txt file must include all libraries with specific version numbers.
- True
- False
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Consider how flexible the requirements can be.
Question 5.
You have installed several packages for a data science project. Write a command to create a requirements.txt file that freezes the current environment.
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Think about how to capture all installed packages.
Question 6.
Explain how using a flexible version specifier can benefit future updates to your project. Provide an example using pandas.
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Consider how software evolves over time.

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