Pipenv does not lock dependencies of installed wheels

When installing a dependency through a wheel (using either https:// or file://), the initial installation will work fine and install all the library’s dependencies into your virtual env. Running pipenv graph will show the dependency tree correctly. The resulting Pipenv.lock file though, will not have the child dependencies of the wheel (even after running pipenv lock again).

I created a repo that shows the error happening in one script: https://github.com/TotempaaltJ/minimal-pipenv-wheel-fail. If you clone it and run test.sh it’ll run through the steps, executing them as it goes, to show that it fails to import the dependency after installing straight from a Pipenv.lock file.

$ python -m pipenv.help output

Pipenv version: '11.9.0'

Pipenv location: '/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pipenv'

Python location: '/usr/local/opt/python/bin/python3.6'

Other Python installations in PATH:

• 2.7: /usr/bin/python2.7

• 2.7: /usr/bin/python2.7

• 3.6: /usr/local/bin/python3.6m

• 3.6: /usr/local/bin/python3.6

• 2.7.10: /usr/bin/python

• 3.6.4: /usr/local/bin/python3

PEP 508 Information:

{'implementation_name': 'cpython',
 'implementation_version': '3.6.4',
 'os_name': 'posix',
 'platform_machine': 'x86_64',
 'platform_python_implementation': 'CPython',
 'platform_release': '17.4.0',
 'platform_system': 'Darwin',
 'platform_version': 'Darwin Kernel Version 17.4.0: Sun Dec 17 09:19:54 PST '
                     '2017; root:xnu-4570.41.2~1/RELEASE_X86_64',
 'python_full_version': '3.6.4',
 'python_version': '3.6',
 'sys_platform': 'darwin'}

System environment variables:

• LC_ALL
• LANG
• XPC_FLAGS
• TERM_SESSION_ID
• EDITOR
• GPG_TTY
• COLORTERM
• __CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING
• ITERM_SESSION_ID
• SSH_AUTH_SOCK
• USER
• PROMPT_DIRTRIM
• PWD
• HOME
• LC_CTYPE
• TERM_PROGRAM
• TERM_PROGRAM_VERSION
• Apple_PubSub_Socket_Render
• ITERM_PROFILE
• TMPDIR
• XPC_SERVICE_NAME
• TERM
• SHELL
• SHLVL
• COLORFGBG
• PROMPT_COMMAND
• LOGNAME
• PATH
• PS1
• OLDPWD
• _
• PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
• PIP_PYTHON_PATH
• PYTHONUNBUFFERED

Pipenv–specific environment variables:

Debug–specific environment variables:

• PATH: /Users/martijn/.cargo/bin:/Users/martijn/.local/bin:~/workspace/docker/bin:/Users/martijn/bin:/Users/martijn/.local/bin:/home/martijn/.gem/ruby/2.2.0/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Users/martijn/.fzf/bin
• SHELL: /usr/local/Cellar/bash/4.4.18/bin/bash
• EDITOR: nvim
• LANG: en_US
• PWD: /Users/martijn/Projects/lib/minimal-pipenv-fail/example

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Contents of Pipfile (‘/Users/martijn/Projects/lib/minimal-pipenv-fail/example/Pipfile’):

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

[packages]
"7abf3e1" = {file = "file:///Users/martijn/Projects/lib/minimal-pipenv-fail/dependency/dist/test_dep-1.0-py3-none-any.whl"}

[dev-packages]

[requires]
python_version = "3.6"

[techalchemy]

@TotempaaltJ installing the wheel is fine, and works fine, and installing its dependencies also works fine, but resolving those dependencies is tricky.

[uranusjr]

@TotempaaltJ In that case it’s usually recommended to upload it to an index server—pypi.org if possible, or a private one If making the package public isn’t an option.