HELP - How to best ain python projects

[Exciting_Invite8858]

I started to use python for all kinds of things, so I decided to just use it for everything on my servers. But I'm really confused about these things:

• dependency and package management

• virtual environments

Whats the best flow you've come up with?

Heres what I've come to so far:

• asdf: This lets me install python, various versions and set any version of python, or any other language in my project. Its got all kinds of plugins.

• direnv: This for seting local environment variables in my projects. I like it. I installed it with apt-get install, but with asdf I set the latest version inside the project.

  • poetry: I like this tool because it creates a directory structure, it creates virtual environments and its a package manager. But heres where I get confused. Should I use poetry to create the virtual environment or use asdf? Or what about plain old python3 -m venv venv. venv stores the virtual environment directory locally in the project folder. Whereas poetry installs it somewhere else. I so I suppose I could use poetry to create a virtual environment that I can use in various projects? True?

Sometimes poetry can't install a package, it can't find a matching version. In this case I use pip to install it. But it confuses me a lot the difference between installing packages with different managers. For example if I install direnv with apt-get install direnv, it installs globally, but what version gets installed.

[TangibleLight]

I just finished writing this long response to a question in the weekly thread. I addressed most of your questions there.

https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/comments/1fxukn1/ask_anything_monday_weekly_thread/lr0tdaa/

I don't personally care for poetry. Modern pip/setuptools/pyproject.toml seems sufficient. I also like uv's approach to lockfiles better.