Poetry (still) does not use active pyenv when creating virtual environment. Is it possible to write a documentation page about how to make this work?

• Poetry: Poetry (version 1.2.2)
• Python: Python: 3.10.8 (using pyenv)
• OS: MacOS 12.6.1
• pyproject.toml:

[tool.poetry]
name = "poetryproj1"
version = "0.1.0"
description = ""
authors = ["Your Name <[e-mail]>"]
readme = "README.md"

[tool.poetry.dependencies]
python = "^3.11"


[build-system]
requires = ["poetry-core"]
build-backend = "poetry.core.masonry.api"

Context

Hi, I am a new users of Poetry and I am working on establishing best practices for python software packaging in our team and I thought about starting introducing Poetry in our workflow. However I may stick to pip and pyenv-virtualenv for a little bit longer as it doesnt seem that poetry is compatible with pyenv.

I think my issue is related to several issues about poetry not working as expected with pyenv such as

• https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/5252
• https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/7075
• https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/651
• https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/172

Issue

poetry doesnt use the active terminal python version defined by pyenv global 3.10.8, pyenv local 3.10.8 or pyenv shell 3.10.8, when creating a new project with the command poetry new projnew1

Reproductible example

1. Install [Poetry] with:

curl -sSL https://install.python-poetry.org | python3 -

1. Add Poetry to your PATH:

echo '\n# Add Poetry to PATH\nexport PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc

1. Restart the shell with exec $SHELL

2. Test the installation by running:

poetry --version

1. Update Poetry:

poetry self update

1. Install pyenv environment 3.10.4:

pyenv install 3.10.4

1. Activate pyenv environment

pyenv global 3.10.4

1. Verify active python version

pyenv which python

returns /Users/loic.houpert/.pyenv/versions/3.10.4/bin/python

1. Set virtualenvs to true:

poetry config virtualenvs.prefer-active-python true

1. Create a new poetry project

poetry new poetryproj1

1. Read the project.toml

ccat poetryproj1/pyproject.toml

which returns the wrong python version:

[tool.poetry]
name = "poetryproj1"
version = "0.1.0"
description = ""
authors = ["Your Name <[e-mail]>"]
readme = "README.md"

[tool.poetry.dependencies]
python = "^3.11"


[build-system]
requires = ["poetry-core"]
build-backend = "poetry.core.masonry.api"

Notes

• I used the official installer,
• I also tried poetry config virtualenvs.prefer-active-python false or poetry config virtualenvs.prefer-active-python true before creating a new project.
• Does the integration pyenv+poetry worked in the past? If yes what poetry version was it?
• I happy to write some doc about pyenv+poetry integration if we manage to make this work

[finswimmer]

Thanks, that makes your issue more clear 👍

Respecting the current activated python version on init and new is already on my ToDo list as reported in #7073.

Until than you have to fix the pyproject.toml manually. poetry install should than work as expected.

[finswimmer]

Hello @Mahdi-Hosseinali,

this issue here is closed and solved. Please open a new one, which includes all necessary steps to reproduce your problem.

fin swimmer