Avoid Repeated "poetry run"

[cjuracek]

Hello all,

When I am in a poetry project directory, I almost always want to run commands from within the project's virtualenv. Thus I find it slightly tedious to constantly type poetry run before every command. Compare to a virtualenv workflow without poetry, where the environment is activated once and then no further action needs to be taken to have commands run in that virtualenv. Is there any similar workflow in Poetry?

Thanks!

[neersighted]

poetry shell or source $(poetry env info --path)/bin/activate -- overall it's "just" another virtual environment.

Note: Since Poetry 2.0.0, the poetry shell command is only available as a plugin. You can use $(poetry env activate) instead.

[cjuracek]

Feels obvious now that you've said it. I was not aware of poetry shell, but I see this being a mainstay of my workflow now.

Thanks for the quick response!

[Apollorion]

If anyone is coming across this in 2025, I believe the correct answer is now $(poetry env activate) since the poetry shell command has been removed.

[ritzvincentculanag]

Nice one!