Poetry Concepts
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Overview
Poetry is a Python package management tool and an environment manager. It does create a Python virtual environment based on the project's declared dependencies. The project should declare its dependencies in pyproject.toml. Poetry can also be used to build and publish packages in Python package repositories.
pyproject.toml
Virtual Environments
Poetry maintains its virtual environments under ~/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs. Each virtual environment is named after what?, and it is postfixed by a hash (ZyD6nUaS). There is an index file ~/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/envs.toml.
The virtual environment is created when?, how?
To display information about the project's current virtual environment:
poetry env info
To list all virtual environments associated with the project:
poetry env list
To remove the virtual environments associated with the project:
poetry env remove <env-name>
Also see:
PyCharm and Poetry
Poetry needs to be installed locally and made available in the path for PyCharm to use it. Follow this installation procedure.
When initializing a project, PyCharm figures out if it is managed by Poetry and asks whether to set up a Poetry environment. It "offers" the Poetry executable: /Users/ovidiu/.local/bin/poetry. As part of the process, the Python interpreter configured as part of the Poetry-managed virtual environment is configured as project interpreter, and also the global PyCharm SDK table is updated.