# Replit — Replit + pip

- Company: Replit (replit.com)
- Announced: 2024-02-15T17:00:00+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://replit.com/blog/pip
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18004-replit-pip
- Subject: Replit Agent

Replit announced first-class pip support for its workspace, enabling users to switch from poetry to pip or import repositories from GitHub with out-of-the-box functionality. The change addresses usability issues where pip-installed packages were usable interactively but caused import errors during deployment. Replit built a requirements.txt parser and a custom pip UPM backend to provide a consistent experience.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://replit.com/blog/pip:

> We’re thrilled to announce that first-class pip support is now available on Replit! This should work out-of-the-box when importing existing repositories from GitHub.

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Record: https://forck.live/items/18004-replit-pip
Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt
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