Poetry Core

2.3.1 · active · verified Sat Mar 28

Poetry Core is the PEP 517 build backend and core utilities for the Poetry dependency management and packaging tool. The current version is 2.3.1, released on March 27, 2026. Poetry Core is actively maintained with regular updates.

Warnings

breaking Dropped support for Python 3.9 in version 2.3.0.
Fix: Upgrade to Python 3.10 or later.
deprecated The 'project' section in pyproject.toml is now required as per PEP 621.
Fix: Ensure 'project' section is present in pyproject.toml.

Install

pip install poetry-core Install Poetry Core

Imports

PoetryCore
```
from poetry.core import PoetryCore
```
Ensure correct import path to avoid ImportError.

Quickstart

A basic example demonstrating how to import and use PoetryCore to access project metadata.

import os
from poetry.core import PoetryCore

# Initialize PoetryCore with project directory
project_dir = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
poetry = PoetryCore(project_dir)

# Access project metadata
print(f"Project Name: {poetry.name}")
print(f"Project Version: {poetry.version}")

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