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stage: none
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info: To determine the technical writer assigned to the Stage/Group associated with this page, see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/ux/technical-writing/#assignments
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# Python Development Guidelines
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GitLab requires Python as a dependency for [reStructuredText](https://docutils.sourceforge.io/rst.html)
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markup rendering.
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As of GitLab 11.10, we require Python 3.
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## Installation
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There are several ways of installing Python on your system. To be able to use the same version we use in production,
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we suggest you use [`pyenv`](https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv). It works and behaves similarly to its counterpart in the
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Ruby world: [`rbenv`](https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv).
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### macOS
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To install `pyenv` on macOS, you can use [Homebrew](https://brew.sh/) with:
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```shell
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brew install pyenv
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```
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### Linux
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To install `pyenv` on Linux, you can run the command below:
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```shell
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curl "https://pyenv.run" | bash
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```
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Alternatively, you may find `pyenv` available as a system package via your distribution's package manager.
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You can read more about it in [the `pyenv` prerequisites](https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv-installer#prerequisites).
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### Shell integration
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`Pyenv` installation adds required changes to Bash. If you use a different shell,
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check for any additional steps required for it.
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For Fish, you can install a plugin for [Fisher](https://github.com/jorgebucaran/fisher):
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```shell
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fisher add fisherman/pyenv
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```
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Or for [Oh My Fish](https://github.com/oh-my-fish/oh-my-fish):
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```shell
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omf install pyenv
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```
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## Dependency management
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While GitLab doesn't directly contain any Python scripts, because we depend on Python to render
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[reStructuredText](https://docutils.sourceforge.io/rst.html) markup, we need to keep track on dependencies
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on the main project level, so we can run that on our development machines.
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Recently, an equivalent to the `Gemfile` and the [Bundler](https://bundler.io/) project has been introduced to Python:
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`Pipfile` and [Pipenv](https://pipenv.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).
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A `Pipfile` with the dependencies now exists in the root folder. To install them, run:
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```shell
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pipenv install
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```
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Running this command installs both the required Python version as well as required pip dependencies.
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## Use instructions
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To run any Python code under the Pipenv environment, you need to first start a `virtualenv` based on the dependencies
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of the application. With Pipenv, this is a simple as running:
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```shell
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pipenv shell
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```
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After running that command, you can run GitLab on the same shell and it uses the Python and dependencies
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installed from the `pipenv install` command.
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