Poetry VS virtualenv

Compare Poetry vs virtualenv and see what are their differences.

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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.

virtualenv

Posts with mentions or reviews of virtualenv. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-09.
  • How to Create Virtual Environments in Python
    4 projects | dev.to | 9 Feb 2024
    Python's venv module is officially recommended for creating virtual environments since Python 3.5 comes packaged with your Python installation. While there still are additional older tools available, such as conda and virtualenv, if you are new to virtual environments, it is best to use venv now.
  • Integrating Python's Virtualenv with Fish shell Without Overcomplicated Frameworks
    7 projects | dev.to | 10 Jun 2023
    Despite these attractive attributes, many developers I've come across don't prefer Fish shell, primarily due to integration gaps with tools like Python's virtualenv. So, in this article, I'm offering a simple solution for automatic virtualenv activation for Fish shell, steering clear of resource-intensive frameworks like oh-my-fish that often slow down the shell.
  • How Python virtual environments work
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Mar 2023
    `virtualenv` still exists and is still actively developed. It's true that Python 3 ships with `venv` but I think `virtualenv` offers some additional features.

    https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv

  • macOS Dev Setup
    23 projects | dev.to | 6 Nov 2022
    virtualenv is a tool that creates an isolated Python environment for each of your projects.
  • How to build your own LinkedIn Profile Scraper in 2022
    4 projects | dev.to | 20 Jul 2022
    Python is the chosen language for this tutorial and as you can guess some precautions should be done to make sure that the environment is setup correctly and the main OS I'll use is Ubuntu(a Linux distro) virtual environment is a tool that helps you to isolate your code from the rest of the system. It is a good idea to create a virtual environment for your project.
  • Fish 3.4.0
    16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Mar 2022
    I've been using Fish for years and spend my entire day working with Python. Python's virtualenv has an `activate.fish` command, I've never had any problems with it. Additionally, we have a ton of internal tooling built in a fabfile, so I've written a couple of snippets of fish that automatically activate that .venv (Poetry managed) whenever I cd into a directory that has one, and also expands a bunch of env vars into the shell session. I've also got this feature request in on the virtualenv repo in the hope that one day we can have activate.fish emit an event - https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/1456
  • What happened when your CI is stopping you from releasing?
    2 projects | dev.to | 13 Apr 2021
    We of cause, like all good developers do, put the error message online and look for clues, we quickly found a GitHub issue and boi, we are not the only souls that got crushed by a "timely" release of virtualenv just a few hours before us. Since the lastest version of virtualenv got installed every time we create the CI build job on Travis, it fails even we have done nothing. Of cause we didn't point fingers at other maintainers, they are just as hardworking as us and it's human to make mistakes. We are faced with 2 options, roll back to the previous release or wait for the patch of virtualenv to get released. As the devs of virtualenv did a lighting fast patch, we have chosen option 2.
  • How to make a Python package in 2021
    16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Apr 2021

What are some alternatives?

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

Pipenv - Python Development Workflow for Humans.

PDM - A modern Python package and dependency manager supporting the latest PEP standards

hatch - Modern, extensible Python project management

pyenv - Simple Python version management

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

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