🎂 Python Poetry Installer (for Windows) 🎂

Anniversary Edition Celebrating the first-year anniversary of this issue. 🖖

This repository is a clone of Poetry's official installation script modified to work on Windows because of Python SSL certificates hell.

It disables SSL certificates validation.

THIS IS UNSAFE. DO NOT USE THIS. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

Usage

Windows powershell

(Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fdcastel/install-poetry/main/install-poetry.py -UseBasicParsing).Content | py -

You will probably want to run this, too (to fix your PATH environment variable):

# Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/34844707
function Add-EnvPath {
    param(
        [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
        [string] $Path,

        [ValidateSet('Machine', 'User', 'Session')]
        [string] $Container = 'Session'
    )

    if ($Container -ne 'Session') {
        $containerMapping = @{
            Machine = [EnvironmentVariableTarget]::Machine
            User = [EnvironmentVariableTarget]::User
        }
        $containerType = $containerMapping[$Container]

        $persistedPaths = [Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable('Path', $containerType) -split ';'
        if ($persistedPaths -notcontains $Path) {
            $persistedPaths = $persistedPaths + $Path | where { $_ }
            [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('Path', $persistedPaths -join ';', $containerType)
        }
    }

    $envPaths = $env:Path -split ';'
    if ($envPaths -notcontains $Path) {
        $envPaths = $envPaths + $Path | where { $_ }
        $env:Path = $envPaths -join ';'
    }
}

function Reload-Path {
    # Updates current session PATH reading the most updated one from Registry
    $env:Path =  (Get-ItemProperty 'HKLM:\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment').Path + ';' + `
                 (Get-ItemProperty 'HKCU:\Environment').Path
}

Add-EnvPath -Path "$env:APPDATA\Python\Scripts" -Container User
Reload-Path