installation from a git repo is not working with python version other than 3.5

• I am on the latest Poetry version.
• I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate.
• If an exception occurs when executing a command, I executed it again in debug mode (-vvv option).

• OS: Debian GNU/Linux 8.0 (jessie)
• poetry version: 0.12.9

Issue

Trying to install from a private gitlab repo with python 2.7 gives this error:

[RuntimeError]
Unable to retrieve the package version for /tmp/pypoetry-git-xxxxxPmWHI

It looks like SetupReader.read_setup_py will return an empty version for a package with any python version different from 3.5

# file read_setup.py, line 68
def read_setup_py(
        self, filepath
    ):  # type: (Union[basestring, Path]) -> Dict[str, Union[List, Dict]]
        if not PY35:
            return self.DEFAULT

Any reason for that ?

Thanks

[tom-mi]

I’d be happy already if this would work with current python versions like 3.6 or 3.7. Is there a reason that this feature is disabled for later versions?

Thanks for looking into it.

[sdispater]

It works for Python >=3.5.

The if statement mentioned in the original post is correct, albeit a little misleading.

the PY35 constraint is actually sys.version_info >= (3, 5), so not PY35 actually means ‘sys.version_info < (3, 5)’ which is acually what we want.