[setup.py] note on how to get to transformers exact dependencies from shell

setup.py

@@ -140,10 +140,30 @@
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-# tokenizers: "tokenizers==0.9.4" lookup table
-# support non-versions file too so that they can be checked at run time
+# this is a lookup table with items like:
+#
+# tokenizers: "tokenizers==0.9.4"
+# packaging: "packaging"
+#
+# some of the values are versioned whereas others aren't.
 deps = {b: a for a, b in (re.findall(r"^(([^!=<>]+)(?:[!=<>].*)?$)", x)[0] for x in _deps)}
 
+# since we save this data in src/transformers/dependency_versions_table.py it can be easily accessed from
+# anywhere. If you need to quickly access the data from this table in a shell, you can do so easily with:
+#
+# python -c 'import sys; from transformers.dependency_versions_table import deps; \
+# print(" ".join([ deps[x] for x in sys.argv[1:]]))' tokenizers datasets
+#
+# just pass the desired package names to that script as it's shown with 2 packages above
+#
+# If transformers is not yet installed remember and the work is done from the cloned repo add `PYTHONPATH=src to the script above`
+#
+# you can then feed this for example to `pip`
+#
+# pip install -U $(python -c 'import sys; from transformers.dependency_versions_table import deps; \
+# print(" ".join([ deps[x] for x in sys.argv[1:]]))' tokenizers datasets)
+#
+
 
 def deps_list(*pkgs):
     return [deps[pkg] for pkg in pkgs]