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# Poetry Core
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[](https://pypi.org/project/poetry-core/)
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[](https://pypi.org/project/poetry-core/)
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[](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
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[](https://github.com/psf/black)
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[](https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry-core/actions?query=workflow%3ATests)
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A [PEP 517](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0517/) build backend implementation developed for
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[Poetry](https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry). This project is intended to be a light weight, fully compliant,
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self-contained package allowing PEP 517 compatible build frontends to build Poetry managed projects.
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## Usage
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In most cases, the usage of this package is transparent to the end-user as it is either made use by Poetry itself
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or a PEP 517 frontend (eg: `pip`).
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In order to enable the use `poetry-core` as your build backend, the following snippet must be present in your
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project's `pyproject.toml` file.
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```toml
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[build-system]
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requires = ["poetry-core"]
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build-backend = "poetry.core.masonry.api"
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```
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Once this is present, a PEP 517 frontend like `pip` can build and install your project from source without the need
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for Poetry or any of its dependencies.
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```shell
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# install to current environment
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pip install /path/to/poetry/managed/project
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# build a wheel package
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pip wheel /path/to/poetry/managed/project
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```
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## Why is this required?
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Prior to the release of version `1.1.0`, Poetry was a project management tool that included a PEP 517
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build backend. This was inefficient and time consuming when a PEP 517 build was required. For example,
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both `pip` and `tox` (with isolated builds) would install Poetry and all dependencies it required. Most of these
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dependencies are not required when the objective is to simply build either a source or binary distribution of your
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project.
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In order to improve the above situation, `poetry-core` was created. Shared functionality pertaining to PEP 517 build
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backends, including reading lock file, `pyproject.toml` and building wheel/sdist, were implemented in this package. This
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makes PEP 517 builds extremely fast for Poetry managed packages.
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