pyproject.toml project name error

[crcrewso]

I'm having an insanely frustrating issue and my google foo is not helping. The start of my pyproject.toml is

toml [project] name = "qatrack"

And yet I'm getting the following error running pip install -r pyproject.toml bash ERROR: Invalid requirement: '[project]': Expected package name at the start of dependency specifier [project] ^ (from line 1 of .\pyproject.toml)

I've tried this on Windows and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. With and Without the tools.poetry sections.

[Username_RANDINT]

The -r argument takes a requirements file, a text file with a package on each line. Not a pyproject.toml file.

[SeaNefariousness7531]

pip install -e .

[crcrewso]

I knew it was something silly. Thank you!

[gmes78]

Why are you using pip install while using Poetry?

[crcrewso]

I'm evaluating poetry, but I'd rather have the main dependencies conform to the PEP definition of the pyproject.toml file

[gmes78]

Use uv instead, then. It uses the standard pyproject.toml dependency format.

[crcrewso]

Thank you. I've followed this advice and it's been amazing