Forget PIP, Conda, and requirements.txt! Use Poetry Instead And Thank Me Later

Author(s): Bex T.

Originally published on Towards AI.

Pain-free dependency management is finally here

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Library A requires Python 3.6. Library B relies on Library A but needs Python 3.9, and Library C depends on Library B but requires the specific version of Library A that is compatible with Python 3.6.

Welcome to dependency hell!

Since native Python is rubbish without external packages for data science, data scientists can often find themselves trapped in catch-22 dependency situations like the one above.

Tools like PIP, Conda, or the laughable requirements.txt files can’t solve this problem. Actually, dependency nightmares exist largely because of them. So, to end their suffering, the Python open-source community developed the charming… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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