The pyproject.toml file acts as a configuration file for packaging-related tools (as well as other tools). Core metadata spec · Entry Points spec · Inline script metadata

The project name must consist of ASCII letters, digits, underscores “ _ ”, hyphens “ - ” and periods “ . ”. It must not start or end with an underscore, hyphen ... Packaging and distributing... · Dependency specifiers · Namespace packages

If you use Poetry to manage your Python project you should reference it in the build-system section of the pyproject.toml file.

Introduced in PEP 518, the build-system.requires key in the pyproject.toml file is a list of requirement specifiers for build-time dependencies of a package.

The example below illustrates how to write a pyproject.toml file that can be used with setuptools. It contains two TOML tables (identified by the [table-header ...