TIL: Python tips and tricks collection

This blog post is a collection of Python tips and tricks that I have found useful over the years. I will keep updating this entry as I learn more.

• How to add a custom CA Root certificate to the CA Store used by pip in Windows?

  pip config set global.cert path/to/ca-bundle.crt
  pip config list

• Generate requiements.txt
  Use pipreqs

  pip install pipreqs
  pipreqs /path/to/project

  or pip freeze. But, freeze saves all packages in the environment including those that you don´t use in your current project!

  pip freeze

• Use a alternative repo for downloading packages

  pip config set global.index-url https://repo.company.com/artifactory/api/pypi/python.pypi.proxy/simple
  pip config list