Allowing multiple python versions

Hi,

I’d like to allow multiple python versions on a project.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

In the current case, my production environments are in 3.7 (docker image python:slim-stretch) while python 3.7 is not yet available in my dev environments (archlinux). But I’m pretty sure that my project will work equally on 3.6 and 3.7, and would like to avoid installing and using another interpreter. Also, I am using features like f-strings which are not available in 3.5, so I can’t specify python_version ="3", because on other dev environments like xenial, one must install an interpreter >=3.6.

Describe the solution you’d like

Allowing a version string in Pipfile, like:

[requires]
python_version = ">=3.6"

Describe alternatives you’ve considered

We could also allow a list, like python_version = "3.6,3.7".

---

$ pipenv --support

Pipenv version: '2018.7.1'

Pipenv location: '/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pipenv'

Python location: '/usr/local/bin/python'

Other Python installations in PATH:

• 2.7: /usr/bin/python2.7

• 2.7: /usr/bin/python2.7

• 3.5: /usr/bin/python3.5m

• 3.5: /usr/bin/python3.5

• 3.7: /usr/local/bin/python3.7m

• 3.7: /usr/local/bin/python3.7

• 3.7: /usr/local/bin/python3.7

• 3.7.0: /usr/local/bin/python

• 3.7.0: /usr/local/bin/python

• 2.7.13: /usr/bin/python

• 2.7.13: /usr/bin/python2

• 3.7.0: /usr/local/bin/python3

• 3.7.0: /usr/local/bin/python3

• 3.5.3: /usr/bin/python3

PEP 508 Information:

{'implementation_name': 'cpython',
 'implementation_version': '3.7.0',
 'os_name': 'posix',
 'platform_machine': 'x86_64',
 'platform_python_implementation': 'CPython',
 'platform_release': '4.4.0-116-generic',
 'platform_system': 'Linux',
 'platform_version': '#140-Ubuntu SMP Mon Feb 12 21:23:04 UTC 2018',
 'python_full_version': '3.7.0',
 'python_version': '3.7',
 'sys_platform': 'linux'}

System environment variables:

• EMAIL_USE_SSL
• LANG
• HOSTNAME
• EMAIL_USE_TLS
• GPG_KEY
• EMAIL_USER
• SECRET_KEY
• PWD
• HOME
• DOMAIN_NAME
• MEMCACHED
• TERM
• EMAIL_FQDN
• ALLOWED_HOST
• PYTHON_VERSION
• POSTGRES_PASSWORD
• EMAIL_HOST
• SHLVL
• DB
• ADMIN_MAIL
• PATH
• PYTHON_PIP_VERSION
• EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD
• _
• PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
• PIP_PYTHON_PATH

Pipenv–specific environment variables:

Debug–specific environment variables:

• PATH: /usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
• LANG: C.UTF-8
• PWD: /app

---

Contents of Pipfile (‘/app/Pipfile’):

[[source]]
url = "https://pypi.org/simple"
name = "pypi"
verify_ssl = true

[dev-packages]

[packages]
ndh = ">=3.6"
django = "<2.1"
django-filter = "*"
"django-tables2" = "*"
requests = "*"
GitPython = "*"
djangorestframework = "*"

[requires]
python_version = ">=3.6"

[pipenv]
allow_prereleases = true

Contents of Pipfile.lock (‘/app/Pipfile.lock’):

{
    "_meta": {
        "hash": {
            "sha256": "8aa12687e2b98dae1d44072f51160fa0bb424048237baa197110c9de93173d07"
        },
        "pipfile-spec": 6,
        "requires": {
            "python_version": ">=3.6"
        },
        "sources": [
            {
                "name": "pypi",
                "url": "https://pypi.org/simple",
                "verify_ssl": true
            }
        ]
    },
    "default": {
        "certifi": {
            "hashes": [
                "sha256:13e698f54293db9f89122b0581843a782ad0934a4fe0172d2a980ba77fc61bb7",
                "sha256:9fa520c1bacfb634fa7af20a76bcbd3d5fb390481724c597da32c719a7dca4b0"
            ],
            "version": "==2018.4.16"
        },
        "chardet": {
            "hashes": [
                "sha256:84ab92ed1c4d4f16916e05906b6b75a6c0fb5db821cc65e70cbd64a3e2a5eaae",
                "sha256:fc323ffcaeaed0e0a02bf4d117757b98aed530d9ed4531e3e15460124c106691"
            ],
            "version": "==3.0.4"
        },
        "django": {
            "hashes": [
                "sha256:97886b8a13bbc33bfeba2ff133035d3eca014e2309dff2b6da0bdfc0b8656613",
                "sha256:e900b73beee8977c7b887d90c6c57d68af10066b9dac898e1eaf0f82313de334"
            ],
            "index": "pypi",
            "version": "==2.0.7"
        },
        "django-autoslug-iplweb": {
            "hashes": [
                "sha256:6ddec119072067e78cbdb53f7ba11ae8bee5a2f2f0fe1d90c6a4d3c0a91489d3",
                "sha256:8a3ba49b18f082e29ac9cb17884d4b2149ad14988bd89e118b1c5ddf94fdea8e"
            ],
            "version": "==1.9.4"
        },
        "django-bootstrap4": {
            "hashes": [
                "sha256:6db4a27b33851833e68b96344f9df063150dcace8d4787ebfc21eceb55196945"
            ],
            "version": "==0.0.6"
        },
        "django-filter": {
            "hashes": [
                "sha256:6f4e4bc1a11151178520567b50320e5c32f8edb552139d93ea3e30613b886f56",
                "sha256:86c3925020c27d072cdae7b828aaa5d165c2032a629abbe3c3a1be1edae61c58"
            ],
            "index": "pypi",
            "version": "==2.0.0"
        },
        "django-tables2": {
            "hashes": [
                "sha256:43b9af69933dd70afd26b5179987fa89a64221379d605a7be86686c4e30933b5"
            ],
            "index": "pypi",
            "version": "==2.0.0a5"
        },
        "djangorestframework": {
            "hashes": [
                "sha256:b6714c3e4b0f8d524f193c91ecf5f5450092c2145439ac2769711f7eba89a9d9",
                "sha256:c375e4f95a3a64fccac412e36fb42ba36881e52313ec021ef410b40f67cddca4"
            ],
            "index": "pypi",
            "version": "==3.8.2"
        },
        "gitdb2": {
            "hashes": [
                "sha256:87783b7f4a8f6b71c7fe81d32179b3c8781c1a7d6fa0c69bff2f315b00aff4f8",
                "sha256:bb4c85b8a58531c51373c89f92163b92f30f81369605a67cd52d1fc21246c044"
            ],
            "version": "==2.0.4"
        },
        "gitpython": {
            "hashes": [
                "sha256:563221e5a44369c6b79172f455584c9ebbb122a13368cc82cb4b5addff788f82",
                "sha256:8237dc5bfd6f1366abeee5624111b9d6879393d84745a507de0fda86043b65a8"
            ],
            "index": "pypi",
            "version": "==2.1.11"
        },
        "idna": {
            "hashes": [
                "sha256:156a6814fb5ac1fc6850fb002e0852d56c0c8d2531923a51032d1b70760e186e",
                "sha256:684a38a6f903c1d71d6d5fac066b58d7768af4de2b832e426ec79c30daa94a16"
            ],
            "version": "==2.7"
        },
        "ndh": {
            "hashes": [
                "sha256:4e10cb37591e3b32f45e3c6c5b39403463928390354b41e0c2d516f245a8cfb3",
                "sha256:bac98ec967b175d3730e7e7a74e388b1d90c744ff2c955cf5f0ce57b6947b822"
            ],
            "index": "pypi",
            "version": "==3.6.0"
        },
        "pytz": {
            "hashes": [
                "sha256:a061aa0a9e06881eb8b3b2b43f05b9439d6583c206d0a6c340ff72a7b6669053",
                "sha256:ffb9ef1de172603304d9d2819af6f5ece76f2e85ec10692a524dd876e72bf277"
            ],
            "version": "==2018.5"
        },
        "requests": {
            "hashes": [
                "sha256:63b52e3c866428a224f97cab011de738c36aec0185aa91cfacd418b5d58911d1",
                "sha256:ec22d826a36ed72a7358ff3fe56cbd4ba69dd7a6718ffd450ff0e9df7a47ce6a"
            ],
            "index": "pypi",
            "version": "==2.19.1"
        },
        "smmap2": {
            "hashes": [
                "sha256:0dd53d991af487f9b22774fa89451358da3607c02b9b886a54736c6a313ece0b",
                "sha256:dc216005e529d57007ace27048eb336dcecb7fc413cfb3b2f402bb25972b69c6"
            ],
            "version": "==2.0.4"
        },
        "urllib3": {
            "hashes": [
                "sha256:a68ac5e15e76e7e5dd2b8f94007233e01effe3e50e8daddf69acfd81cb686baf",
                "sha256:b5725a0bd4ba422ab0e66e89e030c806576753ea3ee08554382c14e685d117b5"
            ],
            "version": "==1.23"
        }
    },
    "develop": {}
}

[uranusjr]

Hi, this has been proposed multiple times (the most informational thread is #1050, I believe), and the resolution is to refrain from doing it, since Pipenv wants to focus on the application aspect of Python development. In an application context, and it is wildly considered best practice to support only one Python minor version in a Python application.

Note that the python_version key is optional. You can always remove it if it causes problems, and document the version requirements otherwise (i.e. in the README). The checks also should generate only warnings that can be ignored if you really know what you’re doing.

[radiantone]

This would be very useful considering python is making breaking changes that are not backward compatible. Specifying multiple versions allows projects to be installed by users without the extra headache. It’s a win for all parties.