New environments reinstalls Python even if distribution from Hatch exists about hatch HOT 12 CLOSED

Try removing the configuration? This is the logic that happens

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Oh, I see what you're saying. The Pythons that you've been managing with the CLI I'm assuming you have not been using the flag to add that to PATH. If you do that then it should pick that up because then it counts as "external". If you don't, then you can actually modify the python-sources option: https://hatch.pypa.io/latest/plugins/environment/virtual/#options

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Adding Hatch's Python to the PATH allowed the environment to find the correct install. I'm not sure why the original command did not do it, but it appears to be working now. Thanks for your help!

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Happy to help and sorry for the issues! Documentation is improving albeit slowly 🙂

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https://hatch.pypa.io/latest/plugins/environment/virtual/#python-resolution

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Right, maybe I'm not understanding the philosophy properly, but this seems to say that the python option overrides HATCH_PYTHON which makes sense except the python option installs a new copy of the distribution in the hatch/env/virtual/.pythons/... directory rather than use the existing install of that distribution that was installed by Hatch in hatch/pythons/...

My HATCH_PYTHON env variable points to hatch/pythons/.... What I am suggesting is that Hatch should recognize that it has already installed a version of python in hatch/pythons/... and use that rather than reinstall under hatch/env/virtual/.pythons/.... Is that a valid suggestion?

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I suppose this works for local setups, but not for CI/CD tools where that python config is there to inform the instance of Hatch on the runner. Thanks for pointing out the code logic though. Perhaps a rule or a configuration can be added to use the Hatch-installed versions of Python.

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Interesting... so if the installed Python was in my path it would've used that? I noticed the install command seems to have failed to add Python to my path even though I did not use the --private flag.

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Oh I forgot that it adds by default. Which shell are you using?

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Both Powershell and ZSH? I use both.

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• If you're on Windows then it should be supported in all cases: https://github.com/ofek/userpath/blob/981085be7669815a186420e1211ed9944ab928ba/userpath/interface.py#L40
• If not, then it appears that on non-Windows systems PowerShell is not supported. I have no idea how I would do that actually. https://github.com/ofek/userpath/blob/981085be7669815a186420e1211ed9944ab928ba/userpath/shells.py#L105

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So if it didn't work on the first pass is the solution to just add it to my path after the fact?

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