Where does poetry look for python on windows

[tjdcs]

Hello all, I am having huge pains installing using poetry on my windows environment. I've installed python with the official installer and also with the installer pulled by winget.

For a while when I would run poetry env use 3.11 i would get "no python 3.10 at" errors, I assume becuase poetry executes internal scripts with the python version found at installation time. So i reinstalled python 3.10 with the official installer and selected "install for all users" to make sure it was in the right directory. I then installed 3.11 the same way and when I re-installed poetry I started runing commands like "poetry env use 3.10" and got "no python 3.11 at c:\Users....\AppData"

So then I reinstalled python3.11 without installing for all users.

I'm still in the middle of this but it seems like poetry has hard-coded locations were it looks for the interpreter to run internal poetry scripts?

This is making a nightmare for me trying to install poetry to maintain my code on both 3.10 and 3.11 python.

Or alternatively I'm a bad windows developer and something just isn't clicking for me... (Very possible)

Anwyay. I think I'm close to getting this working, so not so much a specific help question but I wanted to start a discussion about where python should be installed and where poetry should dynamically look for it.