Configure the Project#

PDM's config command works just like git config, except that --list isn't needed to show configurations.

Show the current configurations:

1	`pdm config`

Get one single configuration:

1	`pdm config pypi.url`

Change a configuration value and store in home configuration:

pdm config pypi.url "https://test.pypi.org/simple"

By default, the configuration are changed globally, if you want to make the config seen by this project only, add a --local flag:

pdm config --local pypi.url "https://test.pypi.org/simple"

Any local configurations will be stored in pdm.toml under the project root directory.

Configuration files#

The configuration files are searched in the following order:

<PROJECT_ROOT>/pdm.toml - The project configuration
<CONFIG_ROOT>/config.toml - The home configuration
<SITE_CONFIG_ROOT>/config.toml - The site configuration

where <CONFIG_ROOT> is:

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/pdm (~/.config/pdm in most cases) on Linux as defined by XDG Base Directory Specification
~/Library/Application Support/pdm on macOS as defined by Apple File System Basics
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\pdm on Windows as defined in Known folders

and <SITE_CONFIG_ROOT> is:

$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/pdm (/etc/xdg/pdm in most cases) on Linux as defined by XDG Base Directory Specification
/Library/Application Support/pdm on macOS as defined by Apple File System Basics
C:\ProgramData\pdm\pdm on Windows as defined in Known folders

If -g/--global option is used, the first item will be replaced by <CONFIG_ROOT>/global-project/pdm.toml.

You can find all available configuration items in Configuration Page.

Configure the Python finder#

By default, PDM will try to find Python interpreters in the following sources:

venv: The PDM virtualenv location
path: The PATH environment variable
pyenv: The pyenv install root
rye: The rye toolchain install root
asdf: The asdf python install root
winreg: The Windows registry

You can unselect some of them or change the order by setting python.providers config key:

pdm config python.providers rye   # Rye source only
pdm config python.providers pyenv,asdf  # pyenv and asdf

Allow prereleases in resolution result#

By default, pdm's dependency resolver will ignore prereleases unless there are no stable versions for the given version range of a dependency. This behavior can be changed by setting allow_prereleases to true in [tool.pdm] table:

[tool.pdm]
allow_prereleases = true

Configure the package indexes#

You can tell PDM where to to find the packages by either specifying sources in the pyproject.toml or via pypi.* configurations.

Add sources in pyproject.toml:

[[tool.pdm.source]]
name = "private"
url = "https://private.pypi.org/simple"
verify_ssl = true

Change the default index via pdm config:

pdm config pypi.url "https://test.pypi.org/simple"

Add extra indexes via pdm config:

pdm config pypi.extra.url "https://extra.pypi.org/simple"

The available configuration options are:

url: The URL of the index
verify_ssl: (Optional)Whether to verify SSL certificates, default to true
username: (Optional)The username for the index
password: (Optional)The password for the index
type: (Optional) index or find_links, default to index

About the source types

By default, all sources are PEP 503 style "indexes" like pip's --index-url and --extra-index-url, however, you can set the type to find_links which contains files or links to be looked for directly. See this answer for the difference between the two types.

These configurations are read in the following order to build the final source list:

pypi.url, if pypi doesn't appear in the name field of any source in pyproject.toml
Sources in pyproject.toml
pypi.<name>.url in PDM config.

You can set pypi.ignore_stored_index to true to disable all indexes from the PDM config and only use those specified in pyproject.toml.

Disable the default PyPI index

If you want to omit the default PyPI index, just set the source name to pypi and that source will replace it.

[[tool.pdm.source]]
url = "https://private.pypi.org/simple"
verify_ssl = true
name = "pypi"

Indexes in pyproject.toml or config

When you want to share the indexes with other people who are going to use the project, you should add them in pyproject.toml. For example, some packages only exist in a private index and can't be installed if someone doesn't configure the index. Otherwise, store them in the local config which won't be seen by others.

Respect the order of the sources#

By default, all sources are considered equal, packages from them are sorted by the version and wheel tags, the most matching one with the highest version is selected.

In some cases you may want to return packages from the preferred source, and search for others if they are missing from the former source. PDM supports this by reading the configuration respect-source-order:

[tool.pdm.resolution]
respect-source-order = true

Store credentials with the index#

You can specify credentials in the URL with ${ENV_VAR} variable expansion and these variables will be read from the environment variables:

[[tool.pdm.source]]
name = "private"
url = "https://${PRIVATE_PYPI_USERNAME}:${PRIVATE_PYPI_PASSWORD}/private.pypi.org/simple"

Configure HTTPS certificates#

You can use a custom CA bundle or client certificate for HTTPS requests. It can be configured for both indexes(for package download) and repositories(for upload):

pdm config pypi.ca_certs /path/to/ca_bundle.pem
pdm config repository.pypi.ca_certs /path/to/ca_bundle.pem

Besides, it is possible to use the system trust store, instead of the bundled certifi certificates for verifying HTTPS certificates. This approach will typically support corporate proxy certificates without additional configuration.

To use truststore, you need Python 3.10 or newer and install truststore into the same environment as PDM:

$ pdm self add truststore

Index configuration merging#

Index configurations are merged with the name field of [[tool.pdm.source]] table or pypi.<name> key in the config file. This enables you to store the url and credentials separately, to avoid secrets being exposed in the source control. For example, if you have the following configuration:

[[tool.pdm.source]]
name = "private"
url = "https://private.pypi.org/simple"

You can store the credentials in the config file:

pdm config pypi.private.username "foo"
pdm config pypi.private.password "bar"

PDM can retrieve the configurations for private index from both places.

If the index requires a username and password, but they can't be found from the environment variables nor config file, PDM will prompt you to enter them. Or, if keyring is installed, it will be used as the credential store. PDM can use the keyring from either the installed package or the CLI.

Central installation caches#

If a package is required by many projects on the system, each project has to keep its own copy. This can be a waste of disk space, especially for data science and machine learning projects.

PDM supports caching installations of the same wheel by installing it in a centralized package repository and linking to that installation in different projects. To enable it, run:

pdm config install.cache on

It can be enabled on a per-project basis by adding the --local option to the command.

The caches are located in $(pdm config cache_dir)/packages. You can view the cache usage with pdm cache info. Note that the cached installs are managed automatically -- they will be deleted if they are not linked to any projects. Manually deleting the caches from disk may break some projects on the system.

Note

Only the installation of named requirements resolved from PyPI can be cached.

Configure the repositories for upload#

When using the pdm publish command, it reads the repository secrets from the global config file(<CONFIG_ROOT>/config.toml). The content of the config is as follows:

[repository.pypi]
username = "frostming"
password = "<secret>"

[repository.company]
url = "https://pypi.company.org/legacy/"
username = "frostming"
password = "<secret>"
ca_certs = "/path/to/custom-cacerts.pem"

Alternatively, these credentials can be provided with env vars:

export PDM_PUBLISH_REPO=...
export PDM_PUBLISH_USERNAME=...
export PDM_PUBLISH_PASSWORD=...
export PDM_PUBLISH_CA_CERTS=...

A PEM-encoded Certificate Authority bundle (ca_certs) can be used for local / custom PyPI repositories where the server certificate is not signed by the standard certifi CA bundle.

Note

Repositories are different from indexes in the previous section. Repositories are for publishing while indexes are for locking and resolving. They don't share the configuration.

Tip

You don't need to configure the url for pypi and testpypi repositories, they are filled by default values. The username, password, and certificate authority bundle can be passed in from the command line for pdm publish via --username, --password, and --ca-certs, respectively.

To change the repository config from the command line, use the pdm config command:

pdm config repository.pypi.username "__token__"
pdm config repository.pypi.password "my-pypi-token"

pdm config repository.company.url "https://pypi.company.org/legacy/"
pdm config repository.company.ca_certs "/path/to/custom-cacerts.pem"

Password management with keyring#

When keyring is available and supported, the passwords will be stored to and retrieved from the keyring instead of writing to the config file. This supports both indexes and upload repositories. The service name will be pdm-pypi-<name> for an index and pdm-repository-<name> for a repository.

You can enable keyring by either installing keyring into the same environment as PDM or installing globally. To add keyring to the PDM environment:

pdm self add keyring

Alternatively, if you have installed a copy of keyring globally, make sure the CLI is exposed in the PATH env var to make it discoverable by PDM:

export PATH=$PATH:path/to/keyring/bin

Override the resolved package versions#

New in version 1.12.0

Sometimes you can't get a dependency resolution due to incorrect version ranges set by upstream libraries that you can't fix. In this case you can use PDM's overrides feature to force a specific version of a package to be installed.

Given the following configuration in pyproject.toml:

[tool.pdm.resolution.overrides]
asgiref = "3.2.10"  # exact version
urllib3 = ">=1.26.2"  # version range
pytz = "https://mypypi.org/packages/pytz-2020.9-py3-none-any.whl"  # absolute URL

Each entry of that table is a package name with the wanted version. In this example, PDM will resolve the above packages into the given versions no matter whether there is any other resolution available.

Warning

By using [tool.pdm.resolution.overrides] setting, you are at your own risk of any incompatibilities from that resolution. It can only be used if there is no valid resolution for your requirements and you know the specific version works. Most of the time, you can just add any transient constraints to the dependencies array.

Passing constant arguments to every pdm invocation#

New in version 2.7.0

You can add extra options passed to individual pdm commands by tool.pdm.options configuration:

[tool.pdm.options]
add = ["--no-isolation", "--no-self"]
install = ["--no-self"]
lock = ["--no-cross-platform"]

These options will be added right after the command name. For instance, based on the configuration above, pdm add requests is equivalent to pdm add --no-isolation --no-self requests.