I have a shell script whose last line is:
pip install .
What does it do?
pip install <package-name>installs the specified packagepip install -r requirements.txtinstalls all packages specified inrequirements.txt
But I am not sure what the above command does.
2 Answers
"Install the project found in the current directory".
This is just a specific case of pip install /path/to-source/tree.
To quote the the pip install documentation describing this usage:
pip install [options] [-e] <local project path> ...
Explicitly, pip install . will execute the setup.py file in the current directory (which will usually load a requirements.txt file).
