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Discussion on: Beginner Guide on “Poetry”, New Python dependency management tool

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Oliver Weiler

I'm baffled that dependency management is still an unsolved problem in the Python community :/.

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Anwar • Edited

So true... It is not like they do not have any inspiration (npm, composer, ...).

Also, they really should get rid of that environement in favor of local files. I wonder if poetry make a virtual environnement or not.

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Yuki Nagae • Edited

Poetry uses or creates a virtual environment according to the below doc. Maybe we cannot escape from virtual environments when we use Python...

Poetry will check if it's currently inside a virtualenv and, if not, will use an existing one or create a brand new one for you to always work isolated from your global Python installation.

see: poetry.eustace.io/docs/basic-usage...