Unable to create Virtual Environment with MS Store Python

OS: Windows 11 Python version: 3.10.3 Initial poetry install via Powershell command: (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://install.python-poetry.org -UseBasicParsing).Content | python -

Had some problems with initial install, so ran uninstall with no problems. However, on attempting to reinstall, got the following message:

Installing Poetry (1.1.13)
Installing Poetry (1.1.13): Creating environment
Actual environment location may have moved due to redirects, links or junctions.
  Requested location: "C:\Users\321gp\AppData\Roaming\pypoetry\venv\Scripts\python.exe"
  Actual location:    "C:\Users\321gp\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.10_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\Roaming\pypoetry\venv\Scripts\python.exe"
Actual environment location may have moved due to redirects, links or junctions.
  Requested location: "C:\Users\321gp\AppData\Roaming\pypoetry\venv\Scripts\python.exe"
  Actual location:    "C:\Users\321gp\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.10_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\Roaming\pypoetry\venv\Scripts\python.exe"
Installing Poetry (1.1.13): An error occurred. Removing partial environment.
Poetry installation failed.
See C:\Users\321gp\poetry-installer-error-2yr835li.log for error logs.

Error log contains the following:

No pyvenv.cfg file

Traceback:

  File "<stdin>", line 879, in main
  File "<stdin>", line 515, in run
  File "<stdin>", line 536, in install
  File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.10_3.10.1008.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\lib\contextlib.py", line 135, in __enter__
    return next(self.gen)
  File "<stdin>", line 608, in make_env
  File "<stdin>", line 594, in make_env
  File "<stdin>", line 326, in make
  File "<stdin>", line 349, in pip
  File "<stdin>", line 346, in python
  File "<stdin>", line 339, in run

Checking the links listed, C:\Users\... \Roaming\pypoetry\venv\ does not exist.

Suggestions on how to correct this?

[s-viour]

I was having this issue too, and found not so much a fix, but a workaround:

try setting the POETRY_HOME environment variable before running the install script to a directory you created. (i.e $env:POETRY_HOME="$env:userprofile\pypoetry") after that, run the install script again

[finswimmer]

Hello everybody,

I slowly made progress here. The problem with Python installed from the MS Store is, that it is an UWP app and Microsoft redirects access to some folder into a sandbox folder. And this is not always done transparent.

I’ve created a proof-of-concept to workaround this. The install-poetry.py script needed a fix and Poetry itself. You can find it here:

• https://github.com/finswimmer/install.python-poetry.org/tree/fix/ms-store
• https://github.com/finswimmer/poetry/tree/python-ms-store

One can test it like this:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/finswimmer/install.python-poetry.org/fix/ms-store/install-poetry.py | python3 - --git https://github.com/finswimmer/poetry.git@python-ms-store

Please note: It’s a POC and the code is not as beautiful as it could be.