Logging Tip For Capturing Package Versions

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I used subprocess to run pip list --format json for me and turned the result it sent to stdout into json. Works like a charm now I don't have to remember to re run pip list and edit my app startup file.

requires_output = subprocess.run(['venv/bin/pip', 'list', '--format', 'json'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
                                     stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, text=True)

requires = json.loads(requires_output.stdout)

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turns out this isn't reliable for some reason, it stopped working the other day and I didn't change anything so I'll have to take it out for now.