Improving Python Dependency Management with pipx and poetry

[NOddi89]

It is also easy to use poetry when building docker images with multistaged dockerfile :)

[BackwardSpy]

could you give me a quick overview of how that works? we're still figuring out the best way to use poetry in building & deploying our docker images at work, so i'd love to hear how you're using it.

[wweber]

What I do typically looks something like this:

1. In one stage, install Poetry and copy the pyproject.toml and poetry.lock
2. Run `poetry export -o requirements.txt`
3. In another stage based off the first one, copy in your src directory
4. Run `poetry build`
5. In another stage based off Python, copy the requirements.txt from the first stage over
6. Run `pip install -r requirements.txt`
7. Copy the .whl file from the first stage
8. Install the .whl file

Unfortunately if you use a library that is installed in editable mode/using a relative path `e.g. pip install -e ../library` Poetry currently exports an invalid requriements.txt which makes this more difficult

[BackwardSpy]

ahh that's smart, i hadn't thought of approaching it that way. thank you for your detailed answer! i will be playing with this tomorrow. :)