pip support

conda-lock has experimental support to allow locking mixed conda/pip environments.

Usage with environment.yaml

conda-lock can lock the dependencies.pip section of environment.yml, using Poetry's dependency solver, if installed with the pip_support extra.

environment.yml

channels:
  - conda-forge
dependencies:
  - python >=3.9
  - requests
  - pip:
    - some_pip_only_library

If in this case some_pip_only_library depends on requests that dependency will be met by conda and the version will be constrained to what the conda solver determines.

We recommend avoiding the --kind=explicit flag when there are pip dependencies. Most tools (except for conda-lock install) do not recognize pip dependencies from explicit lockfiles, so they may be silently ignored. The default lockfile format explicitly supports pip dependencies.

Usage with pyproject.toml

If a dependency refers directly to a URL rather than a package name and version, conda-lock will assume it is pip-installable, e.g.:

pyproject.toml

[tool.poetry.dependencies]
python = "3.9"
pymage = {url = "https://github.com/MickaelRigault/pymage/archive/v1.0.tar.gz#sha256=11e99c4ea06b76ca7fb5b42d1d35d64139a4fa6f7f163a2f0f9cc3ea0b3c55eb"}

Similarly, if a dependency is explicitly marked with source = "pypi", it will be treated as a pip dependency, e.g.:

pyproject.toml

[tool.poetry.dependencies]
python = "3.9"
ampel-ztf = {version = "^0.8.0-alpha.2", source = "pypi"}

In both these cases, the dependencies of pip-installable packages will also be installed with pip, unless they were already requested by a conda dependency.