Matt Davis

Is it because you are missing a version specifier on pydantic? Nothing else really stands out to me about it: https://github.com/pypa/pipenv/compare/v2023.8.21...v2023.8.23

I was under the assumption in the refactor away from requirementslib that if the pipfile entry is a string, its likely a version specifier (but learned it could be a...

>we should reinclude Cerberus in our vendor I'd be in favor of consider it vs a vanilla data-class solution that does some validations -- its such an old library that...

@edwinjosegeorge Are you saying trying to install a non existent package that fails is removing the version specifier for an unrelated Pipfile entry? 🤔

That is really bizarre -- I just confirmed what you are saying -- the interesting thing is the version specifiers were left alone in dev group, but in the packages...

I believe this has been fixed in `2024.3.0` or recent version, hard to confirm, though I haven't seen it happen.

This is the first I've learned of the `py` command, and unfortunately it was not in our documentation that this was ever supported. I welcome to pythonfinder PRs that could...

I've labeled it as something that will be considered for PR improvements, but myself and the other maintainer have limited bandwidth at present to make all of these improvements ourselves.

I believe I added sufficient support in: https://github.com/pypa/pipenv/pull/6360 however it could use testing specifically of the `py` command.

@edmorley Could you check the open PR I added -- I think conceptually it makes sense; we'll see if the new test case passes too.