poetry self:update on python 2.7 doesn't work

[radix]

radix@pop-os:~$ poetry self:update -v
Updating to 0.8.4


  [RuntimeError]
  Unable to determine poetry's path


Exception trace:
 /home/radix/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cleo/application.py in run() at line 94
   status_code = self.do_run(input_, output_)
 /home/radix/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/poetry/console/application.py in do_run() at line 74
   return super(Application, self).do_run(i, o)
 /home/radix/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cleo/application.py in do_run() at line 197
   status_code = command.run(input_, output_)
 /home/radix/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/poetry/console/commands/command.py in run() at line 22
   return super(BaseCommand, self).run(i, o)
 /home/radix/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cleo/commands/base_command.py in run() at line 146
   status_code = self.execute(input_, output_)
 /home/radix/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cleo/commands/command.py in execute() at line 107
   return self.handle()
 /home/radix/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/poetry/console/commands/self/update.py in handle() at line 68
   self.update(release)
 /home/radix/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/poetry/console/commands/self/update.py in update() at line 102
   raise RuntimeError('Unable to determine poetry\'s path')

self:update [--preview] [--] [<version>]

[sdispater]

That's weird. It should not happen.

Could you execute:

python -c "import sys; print(sys.prefix, getattr(sys, 'base_prefix', None), getattr(sys,'real_prefix', None))"

[radix]

@sdispater sorry I didn't get back to you sooner!

radix@pop-os:~$ python -c "import sys; print(sys.prefix, getattr(sys, 'base_prefix', None), getattr(sys,'real_prefix', None))"
('/usr', None, None)

[radix]

and it case it matters:

{}radix@pop-os:~$ python
Python 2.7.14 (default, Sep 23 2017, 22:06:14)
[GCC 7.2.0] on linux2

[sdispater]

And where is the poetry executable?

which poetry

[radix]

{}radix@pop-os:~$ which poetry
/home/radix/.local/bin/poetry

[sdispater]

Ok, this is uncommon to me.

How did you install poetry? Since it is not under the prefix that your python knows about which leads to poetry not being able to find where it resides.

[radix]

I used pip install --user, which puts executables into ~/.local/bin.

[radix]

just to add a little more context to this: ~/.local is used as the python root for pip install --user on linux. On OSX I believe it's a version-specific directory in ~/Library/Python/2.7 or something.

[sdispater]

Commit 5ac9794 on the develop branch will likely fix the issue. It will be available in the next 0.9.0 release.

[sdispater]

Release 0.9.0 is out!

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