Poet was created for Python devs using a specific workflow involving Pyenv, Virtualenv, and Poetry to manage their project dependencies and environments as detailed in my post, PVP- A Workflow for Python Projects. Poet allows you to initialize a Poetry project, create a clearly-labelled virtual environment, and set that environment as the local Python version for your project, all in a single command. Poet also lets you easily determine if Poetry's shell is active and can act as a proxy to run common Poetry commands.

Installing

Dependencies

To use Poet you will need to have completed setup as described in PVP Workflow Requirements.

Script and Alias

Poet is pretty easy to get setup.

1. Clone this GitHub repository to your machine. (Clone Link)

2. Add the following alias to your ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile file, replacing {path_to} with the file path to the poet.py file in the cloned repository:

   Template:

   alias poet='python3 ~/{path_to}/poet.py'

   Example:

   alias poet='python3 ~/Coding/Projects/poet/poet.py'

That's it! You're ready to call on Poet to help you initalize and manage projects with added convenience!

Commands

Unique to Poet

• poet or poet status - Returns the active status of the Poetry shell

• poet new <project_name> <python_version> - Initializes a new Poetry project and accompanying virtual environment. Sets the new virtual environment as the local version of Python for the project directory. Also changes the default README.rst to README.md

• poet pipfile-install - This command extracts the names of packages listed as dependencies and dev-dependencies from a Pipenv Pipfile and then uses Poetry to install those packages respectively. This does not maintain the versions listed in the Pipfile, it relies on Poetry to re-resolve the dependencies.

• poet export - Poetry only supports exporting project dependencies to a requirements.txt file. This shortened command fills in the remaining arguments so you don't have to search around for the only command string that works with Poetry's exporting abilities.

Proxy for Poetry

Poet can also act as a proxy to run these Poetry commands, simply refer to poet rather than poetry:

• poet add <dependency_name> - Install and add a dependency to your project
• poet build - Builds your project into source and wheels that can then be published to PyPI
• poet check - Verifies the structure of your pyproject.toml file
• poet config - Manage Poetry's configs
• poet env <options> - Various tasks related to managing Poetry's virtual environments
• poet init - Initialize a new project with Poetry
• poet install - Install project dependencies listed in pyproject.toml
• poet lock - Locks the current versions of your Poetry project dependencies to your poetry.lock file
• poet publish - Publishes a previously built Poetry project to PyPI
• poet search <dependency_name> - Search through packages from PyPI for potential tools for your project
• poet remove <dependency_name> - Uninstall and remove a project dependency
• poet run <command_string> - Runs the given command string within Poetry's virtual environment
• poet shell - Activate Poetry's shell
• poet show - Lists all of the current project dependencies
• poet update - Updates your project's dependencies and adds the changes to your poetry.lock file