---
id: pyproject-hooks
version: "1.2.0"
license: unclear
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# pyproject-hooks — Wrappers to call pyproject.toml-based build backend hooks.

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

## Install

pip install pyproject-hooks
uv add pyproject-hooks
poetry add pyproject-hooks

## Description

``pyproject-hooks``
===================

This is a low-level library for calling build-backends in ``pyproject.toml``-based project. It provides the basic functionality to help write tooling that generates distribution files from Python projects.

If you want a tool that builds Python packages, you'll want to use https://github.com/pypa/build instead. This is an underlying piece for `pip`, `build` and other "build frontends" use to call "build backends" within them.

You can read more in the `documentation <https://pyproject-hooks.readthedocs.io/>`_.

  Note: The ``pep517`` project has been replaced by this project (low level) and the ``build`` project (high level).

## AI interpretation — verify before relying

Provides low-level hooks to invoke build backends defined in pyproject.toml, enabling build frontends like pip and build to generate distribution files from Python projects.

Verdict: A stable, well-maintained foundational library with no dependencies, permissive licensing, and zero known vulnerabilities. Suitable for build-tool integration; not a user-facing package. Install friction is negligible.

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