Error Creating New Poetry Environment

[Arthur-Huan]

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

• OS version and name: <Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS>
• Poetry version: <1.2.1>
• Link of a Gist with the contents of your pyproject.toml file: <!-- Gist Link Here -->

Issue

This is my first time using Poetry. When using PyCharm to configure a poetry interpreter, it says

Directory /home/arthur/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/pyproject-bQEURbrH-py3.10/bin/python not found

When I try again to configure the interpreting using the environment that was created, it says Error Running Poetry. The command output is:

Recreating virtualenv pyproject-bQEURbrH-py3.10 in /home/arthur/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/pyproject-bQEURbrH-py3.10

The virtual environment found in /home/arthur/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/pyproject-bQEURbrH-py3.10 seems to be broken.

Invalid PEP 440 version: '1.1build1'

I've seen the same error from the PyCharm forums, and applied the fix

sudo apt install python3-pip pip3 install virtualenv

Which didn't change anything. I've also tried installing python3-venv too.

[Secrus]

could you try it from CLI? It should work fine. What you are describing seems to be a Pycharm bug, not a Poetry one.

[Arthur-Huan]

could you try it from CLI? It should work fine. What you are describing seems to be a Pycharm bug, not a Poetry one.

I did try creating an environment from the CLI, however the project doesn't have an interpreter, nor does it have a poetry.lock file.

[krageon]

This consistently breaks because of ubuntu packaging: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-debian/+bug/1926870

This is shit, but it would be good if I could at least work around dist-packages having things poetry can't work with. As it stands I don't think I can solve it at all (e.g. I can't tell it to ignore those packages that don't work).

[neersighted]

I think there are two things going on here -- Pycharm is trying to create a Poetry environment in an odd way that is affected by system packages, and failing.

@krageon, I suspect that instead you are hitting https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/discussions/6623, especially if you have virtualenvs.create false or virtualenvs.opts.system-site-packages true set. In either of those cases this is not currently considered a Poetry bug, though I do have some ideas an interested contributor could pursue to try and avoid the pitfalls I originally described in that discussion.

In any case, barring a reproduction that doesn't involve PyCharm, I'm closing this for now -- if you can reproduce this occurring with a simple poetry install in a clean environment with default options set (e.g. in a Ubuntu 22.04 container), please open a new issue to track the PyCharm-free reproduction.

[krageon]

I have neither of those things set. I'll attempt to create a docker container that has this issue so you can see what goes wrong.

[krageon]

I see it is this https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/4597#issuecomment-1233290435 this issue. The workaround there works as well.

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