Activate poetry virutal env in VSCode on Windows 10

[alex-lechner]

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

• OS version and name: Windows 10
• Poetry version: 0.12.16
• Link of a Gist with the contents of your pyproject.toml file: N/A

Issue

I have an issue on Windows 10 when trying to activate the virtual environment. I use Visual Studio Code and I have configured the Terminal of VSCode to use git bash. So when I open the Visual Studio code terminal an execute poetry shell -vvv I get

Using virtualenv: C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\pypoetry\Cache\virtualenvs\my-project-py3.7
Spawning shell within C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\pypoetry\Cache\virtualenvs\my-project-py3.7

[RuntimeError]
Unable to detect the current shell.

Exception trace:
 C:\Users\user\.poetry\lib\poetry\_vendor\py3.7\cleo\application.py in run() at line 94
   status_code = self.do_run(input_, output_)
 C:\Users\user\.poetry\lib\poetry\console\application.py in do_run() at line 88
   return super(Application, self).do_run(i, o)
 C:\Users\user\.poetry\lib\poetry\_vendor\py3.7\cleo\application.py in do_run() at line 197
   status_code = command.run(input_, output_)
 C:\Users\user\.poetry\lib\poetry\console\commands\command.py in run() at line 77
   return super(BaseCommand, self).run(i, o)
 C:\Users\user\.poetry\lib\poetry\_vendor\py3.7\cleo\commands\base_command.py in run() at line 146
   status_code = self.execute(input_, output_)
 C:\Users\user\.poetry\lib\poetry\_vendor\py3.7\cleo\commands\command.py in execute() at line 107
   return self.handle()
 C:\Users\user\.poetry\lib\poetry\console\commands\shell.py in handle() at line 40
   shell = Shell.get()
 C:\Users\user\.poetry\lib\poetry\utils\shell.py in get() at line 37
   raise RuntimeError("Unable to detect the current shell.")

shell

Activating the environment seems to work when I open the command prompt outside of VSCode BUT there's no tag in the terminal that indicates an active environment. With tag I mean instead of

 C:\Users\user>

the terminal should look like this:

 (my-project-py37) C:\Users\user>

However, the tag (I don't know if it's the proper name) appears if I do the following:

1. Execute poetry debug:info in the project folder in the command prompt
2. Copy the value after * Path: from the output of the command in step 1
3. Append \Scripts\activate to the copied value from step 2 like so C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\pypoetry\Cache\virtualenvs\my-project-py37\Scripts\activate and hit enter in the command prompt

Any solutions for this? I really want to use poetry from the git bash terminal in VSCode so any help with this would be awesome. Thanks!

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[alex-lechner]

I'm on MacOS now but this issue is still not resolved.

[faulander]

Same problem here, Windows 10, latest Version of Poetry. But it's not a problem of Visual Studio Code for me. It also happens on an outside shell:

[pwildenhain]

Also having this issue on Windows 10 with the latest version of poetry

[abn]

Can you try the latest releases? See if #2147 fixed this?

[pwildenhain]

I've tested this with the latest release and it doesn't seem like anything has changed regarding this issue

PS C:\Users\wildenhp\drive> poetry shell
Spawning shell within C:\Users\wildenhp\drive\.venv
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19043.1645]
(c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\wildenhp\drive>poetry --version
Poetry version 1.1.13

[abn]

@pwildenhain looks like you no longer have the "cannot detect shell" error when executing poetry shell reported in the issue. The lack of prompt is likely a virtualenv issue not a poetry one.

If you are using 1.1.13 installed via get-poetry.py, I would recommend reinstalling it via the new script to ensure you get a newer version of virtualenv. Once that is done, recreate your environment.

(Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python-poetry/poetry/master/get-poetry.py -UseBasicParsing).Content | python - --uninstall
(Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://install.python-poetry.org -UseBasicParsing).Content | python -

You could also try the verison on master.

[pwildenhain]

You are correct, maybe I'll look more down the virtualenv path -- thanks!

[abn]

Closing this for now based on above comments.

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