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Hey
when setting _Docker_ as the storage for a flow you can specify dependencies through the `python_dependencies` property.
However, I’m doing it dynamically and reading from a flow configured with <https://python-poetry.org/|Poetry>. I noticed that the format in Poetry doesn’t match what is expected in the `python_dependencies`

E.g:
In Poetry: `colorama = "^0.4.4"`
What I tried: `python_dependencies=["colorama^0.4.4"]`&lt;&lt; doesn’t work
How it should be: `python_dependencies=["colorama&gt;=0.4.4"]`

Before I write something ugly to convert Poetry to Requirements.txt style, is there something available on Prefect to convert it or Poetry support ?

For reference this is a more complete piece of code:
```        flow.storage = Docker(
            registry_url=f"{aws_account}.dkr.ecr.{aws_region}.<http://amazonaws.com|amazonaws.com>",
            image_name=flow.name,
            image_tag="latest",
            python_dependencies=["colorama^0.4.4"],
            env_vars={"PYTHONPATH": "/opt/prefect/flows"},
        )```

Hey <@UNH9DMMK2>, we don’t have anything for this…but I think it’s just a `replace`? Or does it get uglier? I am wondering if there would be interest for this as a contribution as I know we have poetry users, but this is my first time seeing this specific request.

Hey Kevin ! I can put a replace for now but I see that Poetry has <https://python-poetry.org/docs/master/dependency-specification/|many variants> using `^`, `~` , `*`
We have users that use `Pipenv` as well so we need to handle both Poetry and Pipenv conversion.

It would be great if there was something built in Prefect but you are right, needs to see if there’s interest from the community

Oh man that’s a bunch of cases yeah. Have you seen <https://dephell.readthedocs.io/cmd-deps-convert.html|this> ? It might be able to convert for you.

oh.. that looks promising.. let me give it a go and get back to you :muscle:

hmmm interesting.. I have this configuration on Poetry `colorama = "^0.4.4"`
I ran the library above to convert from Poetry to requirements.txt and it generated `colorama==0.*,&gt;=0.4.4`
which seems fine.

If I install it through `pip install -r requirements.txt` it works perfectly.

However, when passing this on prefect it doesn’t seen to like it
`python_dependencies=["colorama==0.*,&gt;=0.4.4"],`
Error:
```Required-by: 
 ---&gt; 54796cc71133
Step 5/9 : RUN pip install boto3 colorama==0.*,&gt;=0.4.4 wheel
 ---&gt; Running in 2d12af75d1f8
ERROR: Invalid requirement: 'colorama==0.*,'```

actually.. just noticed that it generates the command
`pip install boto3 colorama==0.*,&gt;=0.4.4 wheel`
and it fails because of the comma
if I put single quotes in addition to the double quotes around each dependency I might be fine. E.g:
`python_dependencies=["'colorama==0.*,&gt;=0.4.4'"],`

I might be able to use it. Thanks for sharing this Kevin !!