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Summary

req-update-check A Python tool to check your requirements.txt file for package updates, with optional file caching for better performance. Features Check for available updates in your requirements.txt file Show update severity (major/minor/patch) Display package homepages and changelogs when available Optional file caching for faster repeated checks Support for comments and inline comments in requirements.txt Ignores pre-release versions (alpha, beta, release candidates) Installation Install from PyPI: pip install req-update-check Or install from the repo directly: pip install git+https://github.com/ontherivt/req-update-check.git Or install from source: git clone https://github.com/ontherivt/req-update-check.git cd req-update-check pip install -e . Usage Basic usage: req-update-check requirements.txt Command Line Options req-update-check [-h] [--no-cache] [--cache-dir CACHE_DIR] requirements_file Arguments: requirements_file : Path to your requirements.txt file Options: --no-cache : Disable file caching : Disable file caching --cache-dir : Custom cache directory (default: ~/.req-update-check-cache ) Example Output File caching enabled The following packages need to be updated: requests: 2.28.0 -> 2.31.0 [minor] Pypi page: https://pypi.python.org/project/requests/ Homepage: https://requests.readthedocs.io Changelog: https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/community/updates/#release-history redis: 4.5.0 -> 5.0.1 [major] Pypi page: https://pypi.python.org/project/redis/ Homepage: https://github.com/redis/redis-py Changelog: https://github.com/redis/redis-py/blob/master/CHANGES Using file Caching The tool supports file caching to improve performance when checking multiple times. You can configure the cache storage: req-update-check --cache-dir ~ /.your-cache-dir requirements.txt Requirements.txt Format The tool supports requirements.txt files with the following formats: package==1.2.3 package == 1.2.3 # with spaces package==1.2.3 # with inline comments # Full line com...