Why pythonw.exe is required for Poetry on Windows?

[hemnstill]

Poetry 1.2.1, Python 3.10.5

Im using portable version of python that does not have pythonw.exe and all working fine.

Poetry fails on command poetry install but creates corrupted folder .venv:
No such file or directory: 'D:\\Portable\\cpython-3.10.5-windows-msvc\\pythonw.exe'

When the command is called again another fails with message^

Command D:\Python\python.exe -W ignore - errored with the following return code 3221225781, and output: 
input was : import sys

if hasattr(sys, "real_prefix"):
    print(sys.real_prefix)
elif hasattr(sys, "base_prefix"):
    print(sys.base_prefix)
else:
    print(sys.prefix)

Ideally that Poetry not require pythonw.exe

Would be great to handle error more accurately.

[neersighted]

Poetry creates virtual environments using the virtualenv module, which explicitly does not support non-Python.org or Microsoft Store Python builds on Windows: https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/latest/installation.html#windows

I don't think there's anything for Poetry to do here -- if you want to see this change, you are best off petitioning upstream in virtualenv.