You can do this, but it's not as easy. The pipfile project is an effort to improve this. The current standard way to do this is with a virtualenv and a require

You can do this, but it's not as easy. The pipfile project is an effort to improve this. The current standard way to do this is with a virtualenv and a requirements.txt file in which you specify the version of your dependencies, which you can then install with pip install -r requirements.txt. Format is "packagename==0.1.0" (>=, < etc work too). VCS urls work too btw, e.g. "git+protocol://site/repo@tag_or_commit" To get something similar (but inferior) to lockfiles you can use "pip freeze > filename"