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Poetry

Python packaging and dependency management made easy

Poetry is an open-source package managers project on GitHub under the MIT license (permissive), with 34k stars. It is built with CPython. Its last push was 3 days ago.

Stars
34k
License
MIT
Activity
Active
Latest release
2.5.1

Code on GitHub Website

Newer and better: uv instead of Poetry. Use uv instead of Poetry for new projects.

Judgement

What it is
Developer tool
What it does
Manages Python project dependencies, virtual environments, a lock file and package publishing from one pyproject.toml file.
Adopt it when
You already use Poetry or want an established all-in-one tool for building and publishing Python packages.
Watch out
uv now does most of the same work much faster, and many new projects pick it instead.
Ready for
Production-ready
Runs as
Command line
Built with
Python
How established
Established: started 8 years ago, latest release 2.5.1.
What the license allows
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.

Judged on 2026-11-06 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

CPython

Follow it down: Poetry → CPython → GCC → LLVM project → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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