📦 PDM: The Next-Generation Python Package Manager
If you use pipenv or poetry and something is missing, PDM might have what you need.
✨ Key features:
- 🚀 Fast dependency resolver, especially for large binary distributions
- 📋 PEP 621 project metadata (standard pyproject.toml)
- 🔧 Flexible and powerful plugin system
- 🐍 Install Python versions with Astral’s python-build-standalone
- 💾 Centralized installation cache (like pnpm)
- ⚡ Optional uv integration (ultra-fast Rust-based package installer)
🔍 What sets it apart?
Unlike Poetry and Hatch, PDM is not locked to any specific build backend. It supports lockfiles, virtual environment management and is fully compatible with pyproject.toml.
pdm new my-project
pdm add requests flask💡 Explanation in a nutshell#
When developing in Python, you need to install libraries and manage their versions. PDM is a modern and fast tool that does this, similar to how npm works in JavaScript. It follows the latest Python standards (pyproject.toml) and can integrate with uv for even faster package installation.
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