[alexanderh]

This is what I came to the comment section to say... You absolutely can pin dependencies.... da fudge?

Sounds like this guy needs to finish learning Python before he learns something else.

From what you suggested, to containerizing things with something like Docker, there are ways to make Python more easily distributable.

[anacoluthe]

What if the depedencies you pinned have non-pinned depedencies?

packageA==1.0.0 depends itself on packageB

Therefore, you can find yourself with a different set of deps. Had a bug like this once.

[im3w1l]

Pip freeze will pin explicit as well as transitive dependencies

[japanuspus]

You just pin the sub-dependency. This is builtin functionality for all the python environment managers.