$ poetry init $ poetry add django $ poetry shell It's pretty simple. Check in the lock file, and then run $ poetry install to replicate it. >

$ poetry init $ poetry add django $ poetry shell It's pretty simple. Check in the lock file, and then run $ poetry install to replicate it. > - Use pip freeze > requirements.txt as a "lockfile". There's lots of reasons to not do this anymore, and Dependency Hell is real, and has been for 25 years with RedHat RPM's, etc. Even if you don't want to rely upon poetry for building in prod, poetry can still export a requirements.txt file for you, so you're not locked into using poetry, but you still get to specify the high level packages you want, and let it solve the dep graph for you.