Thangavel PrasanthTP

Poetry - The Project and Dependency Manager

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Source: https://python-poetry.org/docs/managing-environments/

Poetry is a tool for managing a single Python project. It handles creating a virtual environment, installing the libraries your project needs (like pandas or requests), and packaging your project for distribution. It is an alternative to using pip, venv, and a requirements.txt file.

  • Primary Goal: To manage the libraries and environment for a specific project in an isolated way.
  • What it Manages: Project dependencies (the libraries your code uses) and the project’s virtual environment. It uses a pyproject.toml file to track everything.
  • Use Case: You start a new project and want to install requests. You run poetry add requests, and Poetry installs it into a dedicated virtual environment just for that project.

Useful commands

poetry lock
poetry install
 
poetry add chromadb@latest

Usual steps

make setup
pyenv local 3.12.2
poetry env activate
source .venv/bin/activate 
poetry install
cp configs/secret.ini.example configs/secret.ini 
make dev

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