What does the @ in poetry add pendulum@^2.0.5 in a docs example mean?

[DFEvans]

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In the CLI docs page (cli.md), the documentation for add gives two examples for specifying a constraint:

poetry add pendulum@^2.0.5
poetry add "pendulum>=2.0.5"

In the first line, what is the meaning of @ in addition to ^? Is this a symbol that modifies the behaviour of ^, some shell-specific escape sequence (I know that < and > can be troublesome), or just a small typo? It's never referenced again in the accompanying text, or the Dependency Specification docs page (dependency-specification.md).

(It's been in the example ever since it was first added in c6a2d6e)

My reason for looking at this is that I've had another developer a little confused why poetry add foo@1.2.3 isn't working to update a required version. I think it's simply that @ isn't a valid specifier, and they've copied (part of) this example.

[dimbleby]

Looks like not a typo, the @ is usual in 'direct' references (files, git repositories) and poetry tolerates it (but as far as I can tell ignores it) in regular version specifiers at poetry add.

In particular poetry add foo@1.2.3 works just fine for me (with some package that actually exists)

[dimbleby]

also duplicates #3142

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