Selecting packages interactively is no fun at all

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Issue

While executing poetry init i get asked to interactively define my dependencies. This feature is very welcome at this point, BUT the way it works is a little suboptimal. While poetry add never made the wrong decision for me so far, in this interactive mode after wanting to install Django i get a list of 100 search results not even containing the actual Django package. Poetry never tries to just guess and install the right packages like it does on poetry add.

Why? Adding Django (and any other package) just works, but interactively selecting is no fun!

Please make it fun again and just install the best guess! Or to be more save at least display the best guess (as it would be resolved on add) and just let the user confirm and maybe select an alternative.

[harrybiddle]

+1. I used this for the first time and found it to be a pretty poor experience. I’m in favour of removing it, or least making it not default (#179).

When I typed psycopg2, instead of installing it it gives me a massive list of that library and similarly named ones. So long, that the option I actually want requires me to scroll up:

Also, if I slightly mistype the library I get a completely different one:

Search for a package: pyscopg2
Found 1 packages matching pyscopg2

Enter package # to add, or the complete package name if it is not listed:
 [0] sanepg
 >

Even if poetry init -n is a workaround, a bad experience shouldn’t be the default for newcomers to Poetry.

[kakulukia]

I also wouldnt mind if that was removed from the init process. Good idea!