Installing with Microsoft Store Python is confusing

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by reproducing the installation with Microsoft Store Python and inspect the installer’s handling of data_dir and the reported installation location. Compare it with a python.org installation; done means the script reliably warns or fails when this Python distribution causes the installation to be inaccessible.

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Description

I have Python 3 installed from Microsoft Store and I installed poetry with (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://install.python-poetry.org -UseBasicParsing).Content | python -. However, I am unable to find the poetry installation at %APPDATA%\pypoetry. I tried running the same command again but it said poetry already installed. I even tried debugging the installation script and everything including data_dir looks normal, but I just can't find the installation.

I suspect this is an issue caused by MS Store Python with some file system rewrite shenanigans, as everything went normal after I uninstalled this version and installed one from python.org. If possible we should warn the user or fail the installation when Microsoft Store Python is detected.

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