Python

Python package management is not straightforward, seeing default package manager (pip) does not behave like node’s npm, in a sense that it doesn’t track dependencies versions. This is why you should use poetry to manage python packages, since it creates a lock file, so you can be sure that on every re-install, the versions would be the same. However, this poses a challenge when you want to create a docker image with poetry, because you need to do an extra pip install poetry (unless you bake this into your base python image)....

Updated 2023-09-09: I now revert back to plain requirements.txt, since pipenv is very poor at resolving large dependencies list. Poetry still remains funky so that’s off the table as well. Updated 2024-01-20: I’ve been using poetry in production for a few months now and so far it works great! Looks like they ironed out a lot of rough edges. Although I would still recommend people to use pre-commit to generate plain requirements....