diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 8c8c6699d3d9abddd65a3a224c2bceedc7d88348..b4b83fcdbc84ce0fb0c91c816ebc3c964acfa590 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ before_install:
   - if [[ "$JOB" == "check_style" ]]; then sudo ln -s /usr/bin/clang-format-3.8 /usr/bin/clang-format; fi
   # Paddle is using protobuf 3.1 currently. Protobuf 3.2 breaks the compatibility. So we specify the python
   # protobuf version.
-  - pip install numpy wheel 'protobuf==3.1' sphinx==1.5.6 recommonmark sphinx-rtd-theme==0.1.9 virtualenv pre-commit requests==2.9.2 LinkChecker
-  - pip install rarfile nltk==3.2.2 scipy==0.19.0 recordio matplotlib Pillow
+  - pip install -r $TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR/python/requirements.txt
+  - pip install wheel sphinx==1.5.6 recommonmark sphinx-rtd-theme==0.1.9 virtualenv pre-commit LinkChecker
   - curl https://glide.sh/get | bash
   - eval "$(GIMME_GO_VERSION=1.8.3 gimme)"
   - go get -u github.com/alecthomas/gometalinter
diff --git a/python/requirements.txt b/python/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3df822bd76d2a64a0a35f84b4ec309ce7150c221
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+requests==2.9.2
+numpy>=1.12
+protobuf==3.1
+recordio
+matplotlib
+rarfile
+scipy>=0.19.0
+Pillow
+nltk>=3.2.2
diff --git a/python/setup.py.in b/python/setup.py.in
index 4110c983180937e86716324f8c92c37b7d2cc3ea..38728aa2fd77cf3c882479ed83e99688b9ffa541 100644
--- a/python/setup.py.in
+++ b/python/setup.py.in
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 from setuptools import setup, Distribution
-
 class BinaryDistribution(Distribution):
     def has_ext_modules(foo):
         return True
@@ -18,15 +17,8 @@ packages=['paddle',
           'paddle.v2.framework.proto',
           'py_paddle']
 
-setup_requires=["requests",
-                "numpy>=1.12",
-                "protobuf==3.1",
-                "recordio",
-                "matplotlib",
-                "rarfile",
-                "scipy>=0.19.0",
-                "Pillow",
-                "nltk>=3.2.2"]
+with open('@PADDLE_SOURCE_DIR@/python/requirements.txt') as f:
+    setup_requires = f.read().splitlines()
 
 if '${CMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR}' not in ['arm', 'armv7-a', 'aarch64']:
     setup_requires+=["opencv-python"]