Platform based dependencies in poetry

Problem

I have a small django project that I develop on both linux and mac. I deploy this project using the alpine version of the python docker image.

Originally, I had installed the psycopg2-binary package on my mac for local development, but once started to package up the app, I had issues installing the prebuilt package on the alpine image. I switched to the psycopg2 package in my pyproject.toml and didn't really think much more about it as I was mostly developing on linux at the time. Recently, I tried to switch back to the mac and got an error running poetry install:

• Installing psycopg2 (2.9.3): Failed

EnvCommandError

[snip]

    Error: pg_config executable not found.

    pg_config is required to build psycopg2 from source.  Please add the directory
    containing pg_config to the $PATH or specify the full executable path with the
    option:

        python setup.py build_ext --pg-config /path/to/pg_config build ...

    or with the pg_config option in 'setup.cfg'.

    If you prefer to avoid building psycopg2 from source, please install the PyPI
    'psycopg2-binary' package instead.

    For further information please check the 'doc/src/install.rst' file (also at
    <https://www.psycopg.org/docs/install.html>).

Solution

After some quick bit of searching, I found the correct section of the poetry docs, which led me to:

[tool.poetry.dependencies.psycopg2]
version = "^2.9.3"
markers = "sys_platform == 'linux'"

[tool.poetry.dependencies.psycopg2-binary]
version = "^2.9.3"
markers = "sys_platform == 'darwin'"

Notes

To find the correct answer for sys_platform, you can use this table on stackoverflow. Or you can check locally yourself:

python -c "import sys; print(sys.platform)"

Example using docker:

$ docker run python:3.9.4-alpine3.13 python -c "import sys; print(sys.platform)"
linux