Poetry Concepts

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• Poetry

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

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:

Python Virtual Environments

PyCharm and Poetry

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/poetry.html

When initializing a project, PyCharm figures out if it is managed by Poetry and sets the project up accordingly: