---
id: poetry-core
version: "2.4.1"
license: MIT
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# poetry-core — Poetry PEP 517 Build Backend

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Popularity: top 1,000 on PyPI

## Install

pip install poetry-core
uv add poetry-core
poetry add poetry-core

## Description

# Poetry Core
[![Poetry](https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url=https://python-poetry.org/badge/v0.json)](https://python-poetry.org/)
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[![Python Versions](https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/poetry-core)](https://pypi.org/project/poetry-core/)
[![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-yellow.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
[![](https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry-core/workflows/Tests/badge.svg)](https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry-core/actions?query=workflow%3ATests)

A [PEP 517](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0517/) build backend implementation developed for
[Poetry](https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry). This project is intended to be a lightweight, fully compliant,
self-contained package allowing PEP 517-compatible build frontends to build Poetry-managed projects.

## Usage
In most cases, the usage of this package is transparent to the end-user as it is either used by Poetry itself
or a PEP 517 frontend (eg: `pip`).

In order to enable the use of `poetry-core` as your build backend, the following snippet must be present in...

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