setup.py for getting requirements sans version information from a requirements.txt file for install_requires

setup_reqs_no_versions_from_txt.py

from setuptools import setup


if __name__ == "__main__":

    def has_requirement(x: str) -> bool:
        x = x.strip()
        if x.startswith("#"):
            return False
        return True

    def strip_version(x: str) -> str:
        x = x.strip()
        for s in (
            ">=",
            "<=",
            "<",
            ">",
            "==",
        ):
            if s in x:
                return x.split(s)[0]
        return x

    with open("./requirements.txt", "rt") as rt:
        requirements_no_versions = [strip_version(x) for x in rt if has_requirement(x)]

    setup(install_requires=requirements_no_versions)