pip was failling on on the psycopg2==2.4.4 requirement because I don't have postgres on system and the django settings.py file is configured to use sqlite3 anyways.
It's part of the requirements.txt because of the deployment on Heroku. It's not very typical to use sqlite for deployment as updates, inserts, locks the database, etc. However, you are correct.
pip was failling on on the
psycopg2==2.4.4
requirement because I don't have postgres on system and the django settings.py file is configured to use sqlite3 anyways.