Having trouble with tasks with reference

[mshafer-NI]

I have

[tool.poe.tasks]
test = "pytest"
stage = "python stage.py"
_publish = "python publish.py"
publish = ["stage", "test", "_publish"]

if I run poetry run poe test or poetry run poe stage, it works as expected; however, if I run poetry run poe publish it dies on stage.py with a moduleNotFoundError (on a module I know is in the poetry venv).

I've also tried:

publish = [
    {ref = "stage"}, 
    {ref = "test"},
    {ref = "_publish"},
]

with the same error.

If I do:

publish = "python publish.py"

It does run.

Any ideas what I'm missing?

[nat-n]

Hi @mshafer-NI, thanks for the feedback.

I'm afraid this might be a bug in how the sequence task optimises running multiple subtasks with poetry. Possibly related to a known issue on windows environments that is under investigation.

Could you tell me a bit more about your environment?

• OS version
• python version
• poe version
• poetry version
• shell type: cmd? pwsh? bash? wsl?
• method of installation for poe, poetry, and python?

One work around that might be worth trying is to use a script task to directly call a specific method from publish.py e.g.

_publish.script = "publish:main"

Otherwise it might work if you do:

_publish.script = "poetry run publish.py"

Though this is a not a very satisfying solution as it comes with a cost in complexity & performance.

[mshafer-NI]

• OS version
  Windows 10 21H2 (19044)

• python version
  3.7.9

• poe version
  0.16.2

• poetry version
  1.1.15

• shell type: cmd

• method of installation for:

  • poe: pyproj dev dep
  • poetry: their https://install.python-poetry.org Python script
  • python: pyenv-win

I tried

[tool.poe.tasks]
test = "pytest"
stage.script = "stage:main"
_publish = "python publish.py"
publish = ["stage", "test", "_publish"]

but calling "poetry run poe publish" still fails on stage on the module.

[mshafer-NI]

Update:

[tool.poe.tasks]
test = "pytest"
stage = "poetry run python stage.py"
_publish = "python publish.py"
publish = ["stage", "test", "_publish"]

does get past the stage step.

[nat-n]

Hi @mshafer-NI, version 0.16.5 is known to fix some issues on windows. Could you give it a try and let me know if it fixes your original issue? I think it might...

[mshafer-NI]

We're still seeing some inconsistencies, but we think we've found a methodology that will work for all of our devs.

[nat-n]

@mshafer-NI Glad to hear it's working out at least. If you're able to give more specific details about what's still not working as expected that would be appreciated to help progress towards a solid fix :)