# pypa/pipfile

Repository: https://github.com/pypa/pipfile
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/pipfile
Language: Python
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2024-04-09T01:58:31+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3575, "days_push": 877, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3232, forks 154 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:50.181413+00:00)

## What it is
The design specification for the Pipfile and Pipfile.lock formats, a TOML-based proposed replacement for pip's requirements.txt, together with a Python parser implementation for the spec. Pipenv is the reference consumer of this format and library.

## Use cases
- parse Pipfile and Pipfile.lock files in Python
- replace requirements.txt with a single TOML dependency file
- manage dev and default dependency groups in one place
- reproduce locked environments with pinned recursive dependency versions
- build tooling that reads or writes the Pipfile format
- declare Python dependencies with TOML syntax and version constraints

## When to choose
- you need to programmatically read or manipulate Pipfile/Pipfile.lock files
- you are building tools that must interoperate with Pipenv's dependency format
- you want grouped, ordered, TOML-based dependency declarations instead of multiple requirements files

## When to avoid
- you simply need pip to install packages from requirements.txt
- you want a full dependency resolver and virtualenv manager rather than a format parser - use Pipenv
- you need a finalized, frozen specification - the format is explicitly still under active design

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: experimental
- function: parser, package-manager
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: python
- tags: pipfile, pipenv, pip, dependency-management, toml, lockfile, requirements-txt, python-packaging, specification

## Member repositories
- pypa/pipfile (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:50.181413+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:24:37.956398+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/pypa/pipfile (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:50.181413+00:00, sha 99ca2fa09f71)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/pipfile/json (fetched 2026-08-29T09:37:34.602224+00:00, sha 0ff716e7cba7)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.