How to run pipreqs programatically inside python

[Eboubaker]

other libraries like pyarmor and pyinstaller allow you to launch the program from a python script. example:

import PyInstaller.__main__
PyInstaller.__main__.run([
    '--onefile',
    '--windowed',
    'main.py',
])

is equivalent to

pyinstaller --onefile --windowed main.py

How can I do this with pipreqs? We can't use the exec() function due to security reasons...

[Eboubaker]

ok i figured something

from pipreqs import pipreqs
from collections import defaultdict
args = defaultdict(lambda: None)
args['<path>'] = 'dist/'
args['--savepath'] = 'reqs.txt'
pipreqs.init(args)
pyinstaller_args = []
with open('reqs.txt', 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
    needs = [n.split('==')[0] for n in f.readlines()]

[Eboubaker]

or i can just directly use get_all_imports which is what i need in this case

needs = pipreqs.get_all_imports('dist/')
for n in needs:
    pyinstaller_args.append('--hidden-import=' + n)