Explore adding poetry

[lymichelle21]

Exploration to consider using poetry for dependency management and packaging: https://python-poetry.org/docs/

The poetry.lock file helps locks dependencies to specific versions to ensure repeatable builds. Poetry also reduces the need to set up virtual environments.

[ACTION] May need to update workflow files

Install poetry and activate virtual env:

pip install poetry 
poetry install
eval $(poetry env activate)

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