PDM VS Poetry

Compare PDM vs Poetry and see what are their differences.

PDM

A modern Python package and dependency manager supporting the latest PEP standards (by frostming)

Poetry

Python packaging and dependency management made easy (by python-poetry)
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PDM Poetry
47 375
6,370 29,170
4.9% 3.3%
9.6 9.6
about 17 hours ago 1 day ago
Python Python
MIT License MIT License
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PDM

Posts with mentions or reviews of PDM. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-13.
  • Implementing Quality Checks In Your Git Workflow With Hooks and pre-commit
    6 projects | dev.to | 13 Dec 2023
    # See https://pre-commit.com for more information # See https://pre-commit.com/hooks.html for more hooks repos: - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks rev: v3.2.0 hooks: - id: trailing-whitespace - id: end-of-file-fixer - id: check-yaml - id: check-toml - id: check-added-large-files - repo: local hooks: - id: tox lint name: tox-validation entry: pdm run tox -e test,lint language: system files: ^src\/.+py$|pyproject.toml|^tests\/.+py$ types_or: [python, toml] pass_filenames: false - id: tox docs name: tox-docs language: system entry: pdm run tox -e docs types_or: [python, rst, toml] files: ^src\/.+py$|pyproject.toml|^docs\/ pass_filenames: false - repo: https://github.com/pdm-project/pdm rev: 2.10.4 # a PDM release exposing the hook hooks: - id: pdm-lock-check - repo: https://github.com/jumanjihouse/pre-commit-hooks rev: 3.0.0 hooks: - id: markdownlint
  • Beginning Python: Project Management With PDM
    4 projects | dev.to | 12 Oct 2023
    PDM is a solution that allows for easy creation and management of python projects. Some of the key features that will improve the management of python projects include:
  • A question about good practice when using docker.
    2 projects | /r/dataengineering | 26 May 2023
    You'd need a proper dependencies management tool like PDM or Poetry to exhaustively resolve and lock down all the transitive dependencies if you want to have anything closed to reproducible build.
  • pdm-dotenv: Simplify Your Project's Environment Variable Management
    3 projects | /r/Python | 16 Apr 2023
    Are you working on a Python project that uses pdm for dependency management and dotenv for local environment variable and secrets management? Do you find it frustrating when CLI tools like pgcli don't automatically pick up your .env file, forcing you to resort to npm install -g dotenv-cli? I've got a more convenient solution for you!
  • PEP 582 rejected - consensus among the community needed
    7 projects | /r/Python | 28 Mar 2023
    I first learned about PDM from a blog post written by one of the PDM contributers. The post was about OOPifying argparse to allow for easy creation/modification of subcommands that exist as their own classes/files, and to avoid maintaining a single long script with an endless number of subparser.add_argument(...) lines.
    7 projects | /r/Python | 28 Mar 2023
    It's per project, check out pdm if you want a preview https://github.com/pdm-project/pdm
  • PEP 704 – Require virtual environments by default for package installers
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Mar 2023
    That's more or less what PEP 582 plans to do, but it's been stalled and mired in discussions for years. The PDM tool went ahead and implemented it though if you want to use it: https://github.com/pdm-project/pdm
  • This Week In Python
    5 projects | dev.to | 20 Jan 2023
    pdm – A modern Python package and dependency manager
  • How does a virtual environment work?
    2 projects | /r/Python | 5 Jan 2023
    pdm and PEP 582 enter the chat
  • Boring Python: Code Quality
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Dec 2022
    I'm liking PDM for a while now. Quicker than Poetry and built according to the Python package spec in mind and not as an afterthought. While it was originally meant to work with PEP 582, it works with virtual environments too (now default).

    https://github.com/pdm-project/pdm

Poetry

Posts with mentions or reviews of Poetry. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-02.
  • How to Enhance Content with Semantify
    4 projects | dev.to | 2 Mar 2024
    The Semantify repository provides an example Astro.js project. Ensure you have poetry installed, then build the project from the root of the repository:
  • Uv: Python Packaging in Rust
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Feb 2024
    Has anyone else been paying attention to how hilariously hard it is to package PyTorch in poetry?

    https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/6409

  • Boring Python: dependency management (2022)
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Feb 2024
    Based on this comment 5 days ago[0], it's working? I'm not sure didn't dig in too far but based on that comment it seems fair to say that it's not fully Poetry's fault because torch removed hashes (which poetry needs to be effective) for a while only recently adding it back in.

    Not sure where I would stand if I fully investigated it tho.

    [0] https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/6409#issuecom...

  • Fun with Avatars: Crafting the core engine | Part. 1
    4 projects | dev.to | 20 Jan 2024
    We will be running this project in Python 3.10 on Mac/Linux, and we will use Poetry to manage our dependencies. Later, we will bundle our app into a container using docker for deployment.
  • Python Packaging, One Year Later: A Look Back at 2023 in Python Packaging
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jan 2024
    Here are the two main packaging issues I run into, specifically when using Poetry:

    1) Lack of support for building extension modules (as mentioned by the article). There is a workaround using an undocumented feature [0], which I've tried, but ultimately decided it was not the right approach. I still use Poetry, but build the extension as a separate step in CI, rather than kludging it into Poetry.

    2) Lack of support for offline installs [1], e.g. being able to download the dependencies, copy them to another machine, and perform the install from the downloaded dependencies (similar to using "pip --no-index --find-links=."). Again, you can work around this (by using "poetry export --with-credentials" and "pip download" for fetching the dependencies, then firing up pypiserver [2] to run a local PyPI server on the offline machine), but ideally this would all be a first class feature of Poetry, similar to how it is in pip.

    I don't have the capacity to create Pull Requests for addressing these issues with Poetry, and I'm very grateful for the maintainers and those who do contribute. Instead, on the linked issues I share my notes on the matter, in the hope that it may at least help others and potentially get us closer to a solution.

    Regardless, I'm sticking with Poetry for now. Though to be fair, the only other Python packaging tools I've used extensively are Pipenv and pip/setuptools. It's time consuming to thoroughly try out these other packaging tools, and is generally lower priority than developing features/fixing bugs, so it's helpful to read about the author's experience with these other tools, such as PDM and Hatch.

    [0] https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/2740

    [1] https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/2184

    [2] https://pypi.org/project/pypiserver/

  • Introducing Flama for Robust Machine Learning APIs
    11 projects | dev.to | 18 Dec 2023
    We believe that poetry is currently the best tool for this purpose, besides of being the most popular one at the moment. This is why we will use poetry to manage the dependencies of our project throughout this series of posts. Poetry allows you to declare the libraries your project depends on, and it will manage (install/update) them for you. Poetry also allows you to package your project into a distributable format and publish it to a repository, such as PyPI. We strongly recommend you to learn more about this tool by reading the official documentation.
  • Poetry VS instld - a user suggested alternative
    2 projects | 9 Dec 2023
  • Navigating the Release Journey of txtToWeb
    2 projects | dev.to | 27 Nov 2023
    For the release of txtToWeb, I opted for Poetry as my release tool and TestPyPI as the package registry. Poetry's simplicity and TestPyPI's environment for testing releases were crucial factors in my decision.
  • 📜 RepoList - A tool to generate wordlists based on GitHub repositories
    5 projects | dev.to | 24 Nov 2023
    I've used Python with Poetry to create Repolist. Poetry is fairly new to me and It was a great experience using it. Easy setup and dependency management. With few commands, I was able to create the project and publish it to PyPI. I will definitely use it for my future projects.
  • My first Software Release using GitHub Release
    6 projects | dev.to | 24 Nov 2023
    There were various approaches recommended depending on our language and ecosystem. My classmates who developed using Node.js were recommended npm, and PyPI or poetry for Python. Since my program is written in C++, I was recommended to look into one of vcpkg or conan, but I ultimately did not use either package manager.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing PDM and Poetry you can also consider the following projects:

Pipenv - Python Development Workflow for Humans.

hatch - Modern, extensible Python project management

pyenv - Simple Python version management

pip-tools - A set of tools to keep your pinned Python dependencies fresh.

virtualenv - Virtual Python Environment builder

conda - A system-level, binary package and environment manager running on all major operating systems and platforms.

pipx - Install and Run Python Applications in Isolated Environments

flit - Simplified packaging of Python modules

PyInstaller - Freeze (package) Python programs into stand-alone executables

pip - The Python package installer

rez - An integrated package configuration, build and deployment system for software