Overview
Poetry is a dependency management and packaging tool for Python projects, simplifying the process of declaring, managing, and resolving project dependencies. It provides a pyproject.toml file to define project metadata and dependencies, replacing the traditional setup.py, setup.cfg, and requirements.txt files. Poetry's dependency resolver ensures deterministic builds by generating a poetry.lock file, which captures the exact versions of all dependencies. It streamlines the build and packaging process, enabling developers to easily create source distributions and wheels. Poetry also offers intuitive CLI commands for managing dependencies, building packages, and publishing to PyPI or private repositories. It supports virtual environment isolation and provides tools for tracking dependency status, ensuring projects are isolated and dependencies are up-to-date.