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About environment mangement and .venv folder

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I found that poetry prefer using .venv folder inside as the virtual environment of project. But this behavior is not described in doc. I think it will be good to write down this.

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Created 4 years ago
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sdispatercommented, Feb 21, 2020

I agree that this is not an intuitive behavior.

I think we should make a distinction between the virtualenvs.in-project setting is not set (and keep the current behavior of using the local .venv virtual environment in this case) and if it’s set explicitly to False.

That way, we make sure that it’s possible to tell Poetry to not use the .venv virtual environment.

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finswimmercommented, Dec 19, 2019

@etijskens: You have virtualenvs.in-project = true in your config. poetry then creates the venv within the project and calls the folder .venv. The name is hardcoded.

@azdkj532: Ah, I see now. I guess this is a bug. If virtualenvs.in-project = false is set, poetry shouldn’t look for .venv within the project folder.

Reopen this issue.

Thanks for reporting!

fin swimmer

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