Does this Action update the python environment from requirements.txt?

[John D. Gwinner]

Hello:

The best of the Lambda's updaters, the only one I've seen that request python version.

A question though - will this install a virtual environment from requirements.txt and upload that inside the .zip file?

It wasn't clear from the docs.

[John D. Gwinner]

Ah, after running it, it looks like although the key python3.6 can be loaded, it's really just uploading whatever .zip file is in the artifact, not making it, itself.

[Al]

@jgwinner what are you using then to process the requirements?

[John D. Gwinner]

I basically took a shell script we used before to do the deploy, and hacked it up to work inside the runner.

This was more work than it sounds like. It took me a while to find out the location of "site packages".

          run: python -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate &&
              pip3 install -r requirements.txt

        # activate the venv
        - name: Activate venv 
          run: . venv/bin/activate 
          # TODO would run tests here; 
          ## create zipfile


        # add our venv / dependencies to the zip
        - name: Add Dependencies to Zip file
          run: |
            mkdir -v to_deploy
            find . -name "*.py" -maxdepth 1 -exec cp {} to_deploy \;
            ls -l to_deploy
            cp -r ./venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/* to_deploy

I don't know if this is the 'right' way, but it worked.

    == John ==

[John D. Gwinner]

Oh - we also updated to 3.8 instead of 3.6 (whew)