^{Originally posted by david-vicente November 19, 2022}
Consider the following situation: I'm using pyenv to manage my python versions and want to start a new project using poetry.

I thought that if I ran

$ pyenv versions
* system
  3.11.0 

$ pyenv shell 3.11.0

Then using poetry to start a new project, like

$ poetry new myproject

would create a new folder with all the relevant stuff inside, and file pyproject.toml would be

[tool.poetry]
name = "myproject"
version = "0.1.0"
description = ""
authors = ["Me <[email protected]>"]
readme = "README.md"

[tool.poetry.dependencies]
python = "^3.11"


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

notice the python version. However this is not the case as poetry new <project name> seems to ignore the active python version and go with the system one.

Is this the intended behavior? Shouldn't poetry new and poetry init take into consideration the active python version?

I'm aware of other issues with similar questions:

• PyEnv + Poetry: Poetry does not use correct Python versions #5252 for example is about the command poetry install considering the active python version, so it regards the virtualenvs managed by poetry but not the pyproject.toml file.