Support for Python Poetry Projects

[dflock]

Python projects which use Poetry instead of pip for package management etc... are currently not supported by LicenseFinder.

Poetry projects have two files which specify dependencies:

• pyproject.toml - which describes the projects metadata (name, desc, etc...) and a top level list of dependencies. This list is roughly equivalent to pip's requirements.txt file - it just lists the direct dependencies. Here's an example from a personal project.
• poetry.lock - this is roughly equivalent to a yarn.lock or an npm.lock file in a JS project - it's a complete dependency graph with the whole dependency tree for the project. Here's an example from a personal project

LicenseFinder support for Poetry projects would be very good to have - Poetry is becoming more and more popular for Python projects.

[cf-gitbot]

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[johannesE]

I used poetry export --without-hashes --format=requirements.txt > requirements.txt and then pip install -r requirements.txt followed by license_finder --python-version=3 to get my list. Maybe this helps someone..