But you don't need to run pip every time you run a notebook, so it's better to comment out the install steps. But then it requires manual input to run the notebook in a CI task, if it doesn't install everything in a requirements.txt and/or environment.yml or [Jupyter REES] first before running the notebook like repo2docker:
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This at the top of a notebook is less reproducible and less secure than a requirements.txt with checksums or better:
But you don't need to run pip every time you run a notebook, so it's better to comment out the install steps. But then it requires manual input to run the notebook in a CI task, if it doesn't install everything in a requirements.txt and/or environment.yml or [Jupyter REES] first before running the notebook like repo2docker: