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?
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 sets the project up accordingly: