Poetry Cheat Sheet

Using Poetry

The purpose of this doc is to serve as a quick reference for some of the common workflow commands. Most of the commands below can have -v|vv|vvv added to them for increased verbosity when running the commands, the number of v's added specifies the level,

1. normal output
2. verbose output
3. for debug You can find all the juicy details in the official documentation.

Installing project dependencies

Install all Dependencies

poetry install 

Install dependency groups

There are a number of ways you can include, exclude, or otherwise specify dependency groups when installing. Dependency groups are specified in pyproject.toml with the following section specifier [tool.poetry.group.<desiredGroupName>.dependencies].

# Test dependencies only
poetry install --only test

# Exclude test dependencies
poetry install --without test

# Include test dependencies
poetry install --with test

Managing dependencies within pyproject.toml

Dependencies can be managed either via the shell or by editing pyproject.toml directly. When editing pyproject.toml directly, run poetry check to validate the pyproject.toml file before running poetry install.

pyproject.toml - Syntactical differences from requirements.txt

The simplest form

boto=="2.49.0"
# Becomes
boto = "2.49.0"

Specifying 'extras'

jinja2-cli[yaml]==0.8.2
# becomes
jinja2-cli = { extras = ["yaml"], version = "0.8.2" }

Pulling from a git repo

By commit revision

git+https://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask-sqlalchemy.git@500e732dd1b975a56ab06a46bd1a20a21e682262#egg=Flask-SQLAlchemy==2.3.2.dev20190108
# Becomes
Flask-SQLAlchemy = { git = "git+https://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask-sqlalchemy.git", rev = "500e732dd1b975a56ab06a46bd1a20a21e682262"}

By repo tag

git+https://github.com/cds-snc/[email protected]#egg=notifications-utils
# Becomes
notifications-utils = { git = "https://github.com/cds-snc/notifier-utils.git", tag = "50.1.0"}

Managing dependencies from the shell

Search for dependencies

poetry search <search term>

Adding dependencies

When adding a dependency and specifying a version, Version constraints can be used.

# Just the dependency name
poetry add pytest-mock-resources

# With a version
poetry add [email protected]

# Specify a dependency group target
poetry add [email protected] --group test

# Specify Extras (multiple can be specified separated by a space)
poetry add [email protected] --extras redis

# From a git url
poetry add git+https://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask-sqlalchemy.git

# From a git url with a revision
poetry add git+https://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask-sqlalchemy.git#500e732dd1b975a56ab06a46bd1a20a21e682262

Removing dependencies

# Just the dependency name
poetry remove pytest-mock-resources

# Specify a dependency group target
poetry remove [email protected] --group test

Working with Poetry.lock

When changes are made to the lock file it should be committed along with any other work done.

Locking project dependencies

# Validate the lock file
poetry lock --check
# Freeze the current requirements in the lock file
poetry lock

Re-Synchronize the lock file

When pyproject.toml is updated, either manually or via the CLI, the lock file needs to be refreshed.

poetry lock --no-update

When running poetry install and the lock file is out of sync, you'll be notified of this.

Working with source distribution and wheel packaging

When we need to package up a project, like notification-utils, we no longer need to use setup.py. Project metadata that was previously housed in setup.py for this purpose is now found in pyproject.toml:

[tool.poetry]
name = "notifications-utils"
version = "50.1.2"
description = "Shared python code for Notification - Provides logging utils etc."
authors = ["Canadian Digital Service"]
license = "MIT license"
readme = "README.md"
packages = []

Creating a source distribution

# Create a source distribution
poetry build --format sdist
# Create a wheel
poetry build --format wheel

Some cool extras

View the project's full dependency tree

poetry show --tree

Inspect a specific dependency

This command will list the package's dependencies, as well as which other packages depend on it.

poetry show SQLAlchemy
# Get the info as a tree instead
poetry show SQLAlchemy --tree

Show outdated dependencies

poetry show --outdated