Inconsistent poetry detection #25524
Description
Discussed in #25522
Originally posted by pdc1 October 12, 2025
Hello,
I have three poetry projects, and two of them get detected and one does not. For the one that does not, the poetry environment gets detected as a venv environment instead. That generally seems to work, but I am nervous that it is not correctly identifying poetry, plus then poetry is not set as the package manager.
If I force it by adding this to my project config, then I get an error about an invalid python interpreter being selected.
"python-envs.defaultEnvManager": "ms-python.python:poetry",
"python-envs.defaultPackageManager": "ms-python.python:poetry",All three poetry environments are in the default "global" location, ~/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/
Are there some steps I can take to see what is going on?
I looked in the output of Python Environments for the project. In particular this part looked promising, but it ends up identified as venv and not poetry:
2025-10-12 16:26:36.667 [info] Discovered manager: (Poetry) /home/paul/.local/bin/poetry
2025-10-12 16:26:36.682 [info] Resolved Python Environment /home/paul/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/convert-audiobooks-jBMuS5Bi-py3.13/bin/python
Here is the full output from a refresh:
2025-10-12 16:26:36.459 [info] Refreshing Poetry Environments
2025-10-12 16:26:36.460 [info] Refreshing poetry environments
2025-10-12 16:26:36.460 [info] getAllExtraSearchPaths completed. Total unique search directories: 0 Paths: []
2025-10-12 16:26:36.478 [info] Discovered manager: (Poetry) /home/paul/.local/bin/poetry
2025-10-12 16:26:36.520 [info] Discovered env: /bin/python3
2025-10-12 16:26:36.523 [info] Discovered env: /usr/bin/python3
2025-10-12 16:26:36.541 [info] [pet] Locator Conda took 60.806657ms
2025-10-12 16:26:36.541 [info] [pet] Locator Homebrew took 84.157µs
2025-10-12 16:26:36.542 [info] [pet] Locator LinuxGlobal took 59.809272ms
2025-10-12 16:26:36.542 [info] [pet] Locator PipEnv took 40.234µs
2025-10-12 16:26:36.542 [info] [pet] Locator Pixi took 25.926µs
2025-10-12 16:26:36.542 [info] [pet] Locator Poetry took 2.194688ms
2025-10-12 16:26:36.542 [info] [pet] Locator PyEnv took 137.422µs
2025-10-12 16:26:36.542 [info] [pet] Locator Venv took 38.97µs
2025-10-12 16:26:36.542 [info] [pet] Locator VirtualEnv took 220.326µs
2025-10-12 16:26:36.543 [info] [pet] Locator VirtualEnvWrapper took 35.704µs
2025-10-12 16:26:36.543 [info] [pet] Locator GlobalVirtualEnvs took 166.525µs
2025-10-12 16:26:36.543 [info] [pet] Locator Locators took 61.34832ms
2025-10-12 16:26:36.543 [info] [pet] Locator Path took 78.985791ms
2025-10-12 16:26:36.543 [info] [pet] Locator Workspaces took 5.979337ms
2025-10-12 16:26:36.544 [info] getAllExtraSearchPaths completed. Total unique search directories: 0 Paths: []
2025-10-12 16:26:36.548 [info] getAllExtraSearchPaths completed. Total unique search directories: 0 Paths: []
2025-10-12 16:26:36.561 [info] [pet] Telemetry: {"event":"RefreshPerformance","data":{"refreshPerformance":{"total":79,"breakdown":{"GlobalVirtualEnvs":0,"Locators":61,"Path":78,"Workspaces":5},"locators":{"Conda":60,"Homebrew":0,"LinuxGlobal":59,"PipEnv":0,"Pixi":0,"Poetry":2,"PyEnv":0,"Venv":0,"VirtualEnv":0,"VirtualEnvWrapper":0}}}}
2025-10-12 16:26:36.622 [info] Discovered manager: (Poetry) /home/paul/.local/bin/poetry
2025-10-12 16:26:36.623 [info] Discovered env: /bin/python3
2025-10-12 16:26:36.631 [info] Discovered env: /usr/bin/python3
2025-10-12 16:26:36.643 [info] Resolved Python Environment /bin/python3
2025-10-12 16:26:36.643 [info] getAllExtraSearchPaths completed. Total unique search directories: 0 Paths: []
2025-10-12 16:26:36.653 [info] [pet] Locator Conda took 85.771511ms
2025-10-12 16:26:36.653 [info] [pet] Locator Homebrew took 454.429µs
2025-10-12 16:26:36.653 [info] [pet] Locator LinuxGlobal took 75.120244ms
2025-10-12 16:26:36.653 [info] [pet] Locator PipEnv took 20.381µs
2025-10-12 16:26:36.653 [info] [pet] Locator Pixi took 59.059µs
2025-10-12 16:26:36.653 [info] [pet] Locator Poetry took 5.472775ms
2025-10-12 16:26:36.654 [info] [pet] Locator PyEnv took 226.417µs
2025-10-12 16:26:36.654 [info] [pet] Locator Venv took 35.027µs
2025-10-12 16:26:36.654 [info] [pet] Locator VirtualEnv took 518.368µs
2025-10-12 16:26:36.654 [info] [pet] Locator VirtualEnvWrapper took 45.909µs
2025-10-12 16:26:36.654 [info] [pet] Locator GlobalVirtualEnvs took 59.984µs
2025-10-12 16:26:36.654 [info] [pet] Locator Locators took 86.074928ms
2025-10-12 16:26:36.654 [info] [pet] Locator Path took 98.002233ms
2025-10-12 16:26:36.654 [info] [pet] Locator Workspaces took 5.813064ms
2025-10-12 16:26:36.655 [info] getAllExtraSearchPaths completed. Total unique search directories: 0 Paths: []
2025-10-12 16:26:36.656 [info] getAllExtraSearchPaths completed. Total unique search directories: 0 Paths: []
2025-10-12 16:26:36.657 [info] [pet] Telemetry: {"event":"RefreshPerformance","data":{"refreshPerformance":{"total":98,"breakdown":{"GlobalVirtualEnvs":0,"Locators":86,"Path":98,"Workspaces":5},"locators":{"Conda":85,"Homebrew":0,"LinuxGlobal":75,"PipEnv":0,"Pixi":0,"Poetry":5,"PyEnv":0,"Venv":0,"VirtualEnv":0,"VirtualEnvWrapper":0}}}}
2025-10-12 16:26:36.663 [info] Resolved Python Environment /bin/python3
2025-10-12 16:26:36.664 [info] getAllExtraSearchPaths completed. Total unique search directories: 0 Paths: []
2025-10-12 16:26:36.667 [info] Discovered manager: (Poetry) /home/paul/.local/bin/poetry
2025-10-12 16:26:36.682 [info] Resolved Python Environment /home/paul/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/convert-audiobooks-jBMuS5Bi-py3.13/bin/python
2025-10-12 16:26:36.767 [info] Discovered env: /usr/bin/python3
2025-10-12 16:26:36.768 [info] Discovered env: /bin/python3
2025-10-12 16:26:36.771 [info] Resolved Python Environment /bin/python3
2025-10-12 16:26:36.785 [info] [pet] Locator Conda took 109.04552ms
2025-10-12 16:26:36.785 [info] [pet] Locator Homebrew took 316.101µs
2025-10-12 16:26:36.785 [info] [pet] Locator LinuxGlobal took 109.424151ms
2025-10-12 16:26:36.785 [info] [pet] Locator PipEnv took 68.454µs
2025-10-12 16:26:36.785 [info] [pet] Locator Pixi took 122.523µs
2025-10-12 16:26:36.785 [info] [pet] Locator Poetry took 7.785668ms
2025-10-12 16:26:36.785 [info] [pet] Locator PyEnv took 592.519µs
2025-10-12 16:26:36.785 [info] [pet] Locator Venv took 38.123µs
2025-10-12 16:26:36.785 [info] [pet] Locator VirtualEnv took 38.562µs
2025-10-12 16:26:36.785 [info] [pet] Locator VirtualEnvWrapper took 38.101µs
2025-10-12 16:26:36.785 [info] [pet] Locator GlobalVirtualEnvs took 675.689µs
2025-10-12 16:26:36.785 [info] [pet] Locator Locators took 110.745725ms
2025-10-12 16:26:36.786 [info] [pet] Locator Path took 125.493353ms
2025-10-12 16:26:36.786 [info] [pet] Locator Workspaces took 20.164531ms
2025-10-12 16:26:36.786 [info] [pet] Telemetry: {"event":"RefreshPerformance","data":{"refreshPerformance":{"total":125,"breakdown":{"GlobalVirtualEnvs":0,"Locators":110,"Path":125,"Workspaces":20},"locators":{"Conda":109,"Homebrew":0,"LinuxGlobal":109,"PipEnv":0,"Pixi":0,"Poetry":7,"PyEnv":0,"Venv":0,"VirtualEnv":0,"VirtualEnvWrapper":0}}}}
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