Geoprocessing for humans: a pip requirements file

In the geospatial software I'm writing and using these days, concerns are well separated. Fiona reads and writes features. Only. Shapely provides computational geometry algorithms. Only. Pyproj (not my work, but a favorite package) transforms coordinates between spatial reference systems. Only. The separation of concerns helps keep interactions between them predictable and as a user you pay only for what you eat.

A programmer-analyst's daily work has all the above concerns (and more, probably). A pip requirements file makes installing all three packages as easy as installing a single package like osgeo.ogr. I've uploaded one to GitHub: https://gist.github.com/1689767. This Gist includes an example of using Fiona, pyproj and Shapely together. Fetching them all, assuming you've got pip and the GDAL/OGR libs and headers already on your system, is just:

$ pip install -r https://raw.github.com/gist/1689767/mersh.txt