pyenv-win VS Poetry

Compare pyenv-win vs Poetry and see what are their differences.

pyenv-win

pyenv for Windows. pyenv is a simple python version management tool. It lets you easily switch between multiple versions of Python. It's simple, unobtrusive, and follows the UNIX tradition of single-purpose tools that do one thing well. (by pyenv-win)
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pyenv-win Poetry
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3,977 29,483
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6.1 9.7
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pyenv-win

Posts with mentions or reviews of pyenv-win. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-18.
  • Windows 上利用 VBScript 取得 junction point 的真實路徑
    1 project | dev.to | 29 Mar 2024
  • Managing python projects like a pro!
    2 projects | dev.to | 18 Mar 2024
    Run the below command in the powershell, if you find this blog post to be too old, please follow the steps in the official repository of pyenv-win.
  • My PATH got messed up and not sure how to fix it
    1 project | /r/bashonubuntuonwindows | 6 Dec 2023
    Looks like it’s an open issue with pyenv-win https://github.com/pyenv-win/pyenv-win/issues/469
  • Dev Stuff Distracting Me From Article Writing
    4 projects | dev.to | 19 Sep 2023
    What made this weird was the inconsistency between *NIX and Windows systems. On Windows the Python Launcher is used. This allows you to switch between different Python versions which are registered in the Windows Registry via PEP514 logic. Unfortunately, one of the popular implementations, PyPy, didn't have great support for it. On *NIX systems pyenv made this easy, while on Windows pyenv-win exists but it's currently not able to pull the PyPy mirrors. I wanted a more simplistic way to integrate PyPy into Windows for easy Python Launcher integration. So I started to do something really crazy: write Powershell.
  • Getting started with Python and Playwright
    3 projects | dev.to | 7 Sep 2023
    We then use pyenv which is a command line tool used to manage multiple versions of Python. This is useful if you are working on multiple projects that use different versions of Python. Check out the GitHub readme of the 'pyenv' project for more information on how to install it on your operating system. For windows check out pyenv-win or you can use venv Python's Built-in Virtual Environment.
  • Script does...nothing
    2 projects | /r/batchfiles | 6 Sep 2023
    I have tried my best to research this issue and have not come up with much. It is obvious that its a backend issue right? The guides that I used https://github.com/bmaltais/kohya_ss and https://github.com/pyenv-win/pyenv-win/
  • Installing Python via Windows Store
    1 project | /r/learnpython | 21 Jun 2023
    IMO I prefer pyenv. There is a pywinenv https://github.com/pyenv-win/pyenv-win. Lets you set up multiple python installs with less probability of screwing then up
  • How to Install AnkiBrain
    3 projects | /r/ankibrain | 20 Jun 2023
    The problem seemed to be that powershell won't run scripts by default. https://github.com/pyenv-win/pyenv-win/issues/289 This person had the same issue as me when installing pyenv. After fixing the execution policy the windows installer ran fine. However when I run anki it crashes after a few seconds.
  • Why not tell people to “simply” use pyenv, poetry or anaconda
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Jun 2023
    I've had success using pyenv on Mac and Linux. If I had to use Windows, I'd probably try pyenv-win [0].

    I have run into issues trying to use packages that were available for one platform but not another, due to native code, etc. Most of the time I could find a pure Python alternative, but not always. This can lead to using containers, which adds complexity, which is a drawback because one of the advantages of Python to me is the simplicity (assuming you have something like pyenv).

    I've used Poetry in the past, but it added enough complexity/overhead that I probably won't again.

    I've had some success putting a line in a README for an internal tool that other devs can use to pip install from a Git repo. Again, assuming you have pyenv or the like, starting from a clean venv and pip install from Git seems to be pretty straightforward.

    [0] - https://github.com/pyenv-win/pyenv-win

  • Is it safe to update Python to 3.8 for automatic1111? I have other things require 3.8
    1 project | /r/StableDiffusion | 9 Apr 2023
    Or https://github.com/pyenv-win/pyenv-win

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 2024-04-14.
  • Understanding Dependencies in Programming
    4 projects | dev.to | 14 Apr 2024
    You can manage dependencies in Python with the package manager pip, which comes pre-installed with Python. Pip allows you to install and uninstall Python packages, and it uses a requirements.txt file to keep track of which packages your project depends on. However, pip does not have robust dependency resolution features or isolate dependencies for different projects; this is where tools like pipenv and poetry come in. These tools create a virtual environment for each project, separating the project's dependencies from the system-wide Python environment and other projects.
  • Implementing semantic image search with Amazon Titan and Supabase Vector
    4 projects | dev.to | 5 Apr 2024
    Poetry provides packaging and dependency management for Python. If you haven't already, install poetry via pip:
  • From Kotlin Scripting to Python
    1 project | dev.to | 7 Mar 2024
    Poetry
  • 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.
  • How do you resolve dependency conflicts?
    1 project | /r/learnpython | 10 Dec 2023
    I started using poetry. The problem is poetry will not install if there is dependency conflict and there is no way to ignore: github

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pyenv-win and Poetry you can also consider the following projects:

pyenv-virtualenv - a pyenv plugin to manage virtualenv (a.k.a. python-virtualenv)

Pipenv - Python Development Workflow for Humans.

pyenv - Simple Python version management

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

mise - dev tools, env vars, task runner

hatch - Modern, extensible Python project management

hygeia - Python toolchain manager 🐍

flakehell - Flake8 wrapper to make it nice, legacy-friendly, configurable.

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

Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code

virtualenv - Virtual Python Environment builder