def METHOD_NAME(path: str) -> Set[str]:
	"""
	Fetches all the package lines from a pip requirements.txt file
	returning them as a set of strings.
	The returned set could be compared with a set from another file
	which would allow easy identification of which requirements were added or removed.
	"""
	with open(path, "r") as f:
		lines = [x.strip() for x in f.readlines()]
		lines = [x for x in lines if x and not x.isspace() and not x.startswith('#')]
	return set(lines)