AttributeError on running "poetry install"

[pavdmyt]

• 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: macOS Mojave, version 10.14.6
• Poetry version: 1.0.5

Issue

Having a pyproject.toml with the following tool.poetry.dependencies section:

[tool.poetry.dependencies]
python = "~2.7, >=3.4, <3.8"

Running poetry install results in AttributeError:

$ poetry install -vvv

[AttributeError]
EmptyConstraint instance has no attribute 'min'

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/me/.poetry/lib/poetry/_vendor/py2.7/clikit/console_application.py", line 131, in run
    status_code = command.handle(parsed_args, io)
  File "/Users/me/.poetry/lib/poetry/_vendor/py2.7/clikit/api/command/command.py", line 120, in handle
    status_code = self._do_handle(args, io)
  File "/Users/me/.poetry/lib/poetry/_vendor/py2.7/clikit/api/command/command.py", line 163, in _do_handle
    self._dispatcher.dispatch(PRE_HANDLE, event)
  File "/Users/me/.poetry/lib/poetry/_vendor/py2.7/clikit/api/event/event_dispatcher.py", line 22, in dispatch
    self._do_dispatch(listeners, event_name, event)
  File "/Users/me/.poetry/lib/poetry/_vendor/py2.7/clikit/api/event/event_dispatcher.py", line 89, in _do_dispatch
    listener(event, event_name, self)
  File "/Users/me/.poetry/lib/poetry/console/config/application_config.py", line 86, in set_env
    poetry = command.poetry
  File "/Users/me/.poetry/lib/poetry/console/commands/command.py", line 10, in poetry
    return self.application.poetry
  File "/Users/me/.poetry/lib/poetry/console/application.py", line 49, in poetry
    self._poetry = Factory().create_poetry(Path.cwd())
  File "/Users/me/.poetry/lib/poetry/factory.py", line 90, in create_poetry
    package.python_versions = constraint
  File "/Users/me/.poetry/lib/poetry/packages/project_package.py", line 45, in python_versions
    create_nested_marker('python_version', self._python_constraint)
  File "/Users/me/.poetry/lib/poetry/packages/utils/utils.py", line 214, in create_nested_marker
    if constraint.min is not None:

However, poetry check returns no errors:

$ poetry check
All set!

So, I'm making a conclusion that python = "~2.7, >=3.4, <3.8" is a valid version constraint.

[abn]

@pavdmyt I beielve the constraint you are looking for is ^2.7 || >=3.4 <3.8.

[pavdmyt]

@abn Thanks! I didn't find OR operator in docs.

My point is more about that in described case the AttributeError: EmptyConstraint instance has no attribute 'min' is not really helpful and poetry check accepts obviously invalid requirement: python = "~2.7, >=3.4, <3.8", without failure.

[andreoliwa]

I'm having the same error on Poetry 1.0.9.

The package I'm trying (AuHau/toggl-cli) has:

python_requires = >=3.6.0, <3.9.0

This is my debug info, and a gist below with pyproject.toml and the full error log.

Poetry
Version: 1.0.9
Python:  3.8.3

Virtualenv
Python:         3.8.3
Implementation: CPython
Path:           /Users/wagneraugusto/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/toggl-cli-bug-t9z0mPRw-py3.8
Valid:          True

System
Platform: darwin
OS:       posix
Python:   /Users/wagneraugusto/.pyenv/versions/3.8.3

Poetry [AttributeError] 'EmptyConstraint' object has no attribute 'min'

(Note: yesterday I didn't see this open issue, so I left the same comment on #534, which I believe is a closed duplicated issue)

[nikmolnar]

I'm experiencing this error in Poetry 1.1.5 when python ^2.7 and pytest are both listed. Here is a minimal example:

[tool.poetry]
name = "poetry-bug"
version = "0.1.0"
description = ""
authors = ["Me"]

[tool.poetry.dependencies]
python = "^2.7"

[tool.poetry.dev-dependencies]
pytest = "*"

[build-system]
requires = ["poetry-core>=1.0.0"]
build-backend = "poetry.core.masonry.api"

Running poetry lock will result in the aforementioned EmptyConstraint error. Changing the Python version to ^3.6 or removing the pytest dev dependency will work correctly.

[pawamoy]

Experiencing the same thing with python = "^3.6".

[ghost]

👍 Also encountering this issue today w/ Python 3.8.

UPDATE: pytest-randomly caused the issue. This comment here helped fix the problem. I downgraded pytest-randomly to 3.5.0. #3862 (comment)

[jedie]

I ran into this bug, too. And yes, it's caused by pytest-randomly

Work-a-round: pytest-randomly = "!=3.6.0"

But i think poetry should raise a better error messages than this:

Think we should get the package name that caused the error, isn't it?

[mforbes]

This is probably a documentation issue. According to the docs:

Multiple version requirements can also be separated with a comma, e.g. >= 1.2, < 1.5.

This should probably explicitly state that a comma in this corresponds to logical and, and an example with logical or || should be included.