• 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: Linux nef-devel 3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.x86_64 # 1 SMP Thu Jan 25 20:13:58 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
• Poetry version: 1.1.14
• Link of a Gist with the contents of your pyproject.toml file:
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Issue

I have a project that requires Python ^3.9. The system installation in /usr/bin/python3 is Python 3.6 and I'm in a Conda environment with Python 3.9.7.

Running poetry install gives:

The currently activated Python version 3.6.8 is not supported by the project (^3.9).
Trying to find and use a compatible version. 
Using python3 (3.9.7)
Creating virtualenv poetry-test-PDOMCCYP-py3.9 in /home/ocifka/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs
Updating dependencies
Resolving dependencies... (0.1s)

Writing lock file

However, this is the opposite of what happens.

Firstly, the activated Python was version 3.9.7 (from Conda) and not 3.6.8:

$ python --version
Python 3.9.7

Secondly, Poetry goes ahead and installs Python 3.6.8:

$ ~/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs/poetry-test-PDOMCCYP-py3.9/bin/python --version
Python 3.6.8