I’d recommend using pip-tools. It doesn’t require any special tooling to install requirements. However, pip-tools will allow you to specify only your top level

I’d recommend using pip-tools. It doesn’t require any special tooling to install requirements. However, pip-tools will allow you to specify only your top level dependencies in separate files, and it will compile those into requirements.txt files with all dependencies (including sub-dependencies) locked. More details: https://nvie.com/posts/better-package-management/ https://nvie.com/posts/better-package-management/ I’ve heard a lot of recommendations for poetry too.