python-poetry/poetry

Health v2 · maintenance only

Adoption not part of the score

34293 stars · 2478 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Poetry is a CLI tool for Python dependency management and packaging that uses a pyproject.toml-based project format with a lockfile for deterministic, repeatable installs. It handles dependency resolution, virtual environment management, building sdists/wheels, and publishing to PyPI or private repositories.

Use cases

• manage python project dependencies
• create a lockfile for reproducible installs
• build and publish a package to pypi
• replace setup.py and requirements.txt with pyproject.toml
• manage virtual environments for python projects
• organize dev and test dependency groups
• install packages from private pypi repositories

When to choose

• you want deterministic builds with a lockfile for a Python application
• you want one tool for dependency management, packaging, and publishing
• you want automatic virtual environment isolation per project
• you need dependency groups for dev, test, or docs dependencies

When to avoid

• your team is standardized on pip + pip-tools or uv workflows
• you only need to install packages without project dependency management
• you need to support Python versions older than 3.9

Facets

cli-tool · maturity stable

package-manager build-tool cli developer-tools developer-tools programming-languages python windows cli cross-platform python-packaging dependency-management pyproject-toml lockfile virtualenv pypi-publishing dependency-resolution command-line automation linux macos

Member repositories

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="python-poetry/poetry")