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Quick question - is there a way to take pants-generated lockfile and install all packages from it without using pants, globally in a system? I'm looking for something like `pip install &lt;lockfile.lock&gt;` but that's not a format pip supports, are there other ways of doing that? Thanks!

Hi, That’s the topic of this recent thread that had this little gist in it:
<https://pantsbuild.slack.com/archives/C046T6T9U/p1686843597813289?thread_ts=1686840160.460539&amp;cid=C046T6T9U>

tl;dr; you need to strip the comments from the pants lockfile then you can pass that to pex to create the venv.

oh, or in case you don’t want it in a venv, use pex to export the requirements for you.

ok, so stripping the comments, then `pex3 lock export` should do the trick? Thanks!

something like that, yea :slightly_smiling_face:

it worked, thanks <@U01PZK60W2F> :slightly_smiling_face: