Pipenv is a tool that aims to abstract away the complexity of managing Python dependencies and environments. It combines pip and virtualenv, installing and managing packages from Pipfile and Pipfile.lock files to provide deterministic, encrypted builds. Pipenv provides convenience by handling dependencies and environments together, and resilience through managing requirements and transitive dependencies. While it has some drawbacks like speed and stability, Pipenv emphasizes security through package hashing and automatic vulnerability checking.
5. Pipenv is the porcelain I always wanted to build for pip.
It fits my brain and mostly replaces virtualenvwrapper
and manual pip calls for me. Use it.
-Jannis Leidel, former pip maintainer
6. This package manager is really awesome. For the first
time I know exactly what my dependencies are which I
installed and what the transitive dependencies are.
Combined with the fact that installs are deterministic,
makes this package manager first class, like cargo.
-David Gang