📦 reqbuddy – Python Requirement File Helper

A lightweight Python utility for managing requirements.txt files and discovering installed packages. It includes both a Python API and CLI for convenience.

📌 Available on PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/reqbuddy/

✨ Features

• 🔍 Read & clean requirements.txt
• 📄 Generate requirements.txt from the current environment
• 🧹 Strip version constraints if needed
• 🖥️ CLI support: reqbuddy get, reqbuddy find
• ♻️ Remove duplicate entries

🔧 Installation

 pip install reqbuddy

🚀 CLI Usage

# Generate requirements.txt from current environment
reqbuddy find

# Read and print requirements
reqbuddy get

🧑‍💻 Python Usage

from reqbuddy import find_requirement, get_requirement

# Generate requirements.txt
genreqs = find_requirement(strip=False, save=True)
print(genreqs)

# Read existing requirements.txt
reqs = get_requirement(strip=True)
print(reqs)

✅ Requirements

• Python 3.8+

🛠️ For Developers: Automated Releasing

This project includes a helpful script: release.sh

✨ What it does:

• ✅ Bumps the version in pyproject.toml
• 📝 Updates CHANGELOG.md with your message
• 🏷 Creates a Git tag (e.g., v0.1.7)
• 🚀 Pushes the tag and code to GitHub
• 📦 Triggers GitHub Actions to publish to PyPI
• 📢 Creates a GitHub Release page
• ✅ Confirms the new version is live on PyPI

🧪 How to use it

./release.sh 0.1.7 "Add CLI command and improve requirement detection"

Make sure:

• You’ve installed the GitHub CLI
• You’re authenticated (gh auth login)

📝 License

MIT License

🤝 Contributing

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch (git checkout -b feature/new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add new feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/new-feature)
5. Create a Pull Request

🙋‍♂️ Author

Astin Biju
Feel free to connect on LinkedIn or message me for questions or collaboration.