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Actual version installed is different than it claimed to have installed

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
cli, tooling

Research direction

Start by reproducing the documented installation command on macOS, then compare its reported version with poetry --version. Inspect the installed command at ~/.local/bin and the installation output shown in the report. Done means the command resolves to the version the installer says it installed, or the discrepancy is clearly explained.

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Description

Here is a console log of the poetry installation on a Mac OSX Ventura.
It claims to have installed version 1.3.2 but when I run the "poetry --version" it showed version 1.3.1


 ~/.local/bin  curl -sSL https://install.python-poetry.org | python3 -

Retrieving Poetry metadata

# Welcome to Poetry!

This will download and install the latest version of Poetry,
a dependency and package manager for Python.

It will add the `poetry` command to Poetry's bin directory, located at:

/Users/tonychia/.local/bin

You can uninstall at any time by executing this script with the --uninstall option,
and these changes will be reverted.

Installing Poetry (1.3.2): Installing Poetry
Installing Poetry (1.3.2): Done

Poetry (1.3.2) is installed now. Great!

You can test that everything is set up by executing:

`poetry --version`

 ~/.local/bin 
 ~/.local/bin  poetry --version
Poetry (version 1.3.1)
 ~/.local/bin  ls -ltr
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