Environment Isolation and Dependency Management

Information on development environment and dependency:

Environment Isolation:

• System installed python should never be used for development. Isolate your development.
• Any of the following can be used for python isolation:
  • pyenv. Recommended as this supports local python install and multiple python versions.
  • virtualenv. Third Party
  • venv. Inbuilt python -m venv
• Use pip for installing packages if not using poetry.

Dependency Management:

• poetry is recommended as it handles dependency as well as build system.
• You can use setuptools and setup.py as well for requirements handling through requires. They must be used for install-able modules.
• requirements.txt style should be avoided although you may come across this style a lot.