Running deactivate inside a poetry shell breaks it

• I am on the latest Poetry version.

• I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate.

• OS version and name: macOS Catalina

• Poetry version: 1.0.5

Issue

After running poetry shell I tried to exit running deactivate. That deactivated the virtualenv, that is, I was not able to access anymore the version of de libs installed for my project. But when I tried to run poetry shell again, I got this message:

Virtual environment already activated...

Then I discovered I should exit using the exit command.

I think the deactivate command should be disabled inside the poetry shell.

[finswimmer]

Hello,

the reason for this behavior is, that poetry shell does two things:

1. start a new shell
2. activate the virtual environment

The command deactivate is provided by the venv and exit is provided by the shell itself. poetry has no influence on that commands.

So to leave the env and the shell using exit is the intended way.

fin swimmer

[cwkang1998]

I think this should be included in the documentation on the shell command here: https://python-poetry.org/docs/cli/#shell. May I add a pull request to indicate the use of exit instead of deactivate ?

Are you going to do this? I have time to do this as well.

Yup. Sorry, I didn’t get an email for this until now so I didn’t know I got a go. I’ll add it by today and submit the PR.