How to specifiy python version for virtualenv besides the default

[codeman101]

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I'm trying to install a dependency which is forcing python 3.6 (via ~3.6) and my default is python 3.7.5. I installed python 3.6.0 and I tried editing the toml file of my project where the python requirement is specified to be ~3.6. When that didn't work I tried rerunning poetry init and when I got to the python version prompt I wrote ~3.6. Still the dependency failed to install and I couldn't find anything in the docs on how to resolve this (or here in the issues when I searched "specific python vitrualenv"

Does the need to use a specific python version force me to have manually create the virtualenv before running poetry init? I was under the impression that it's possible to do something like poetry init --use python3.6(or the path to it though I hope not for cross compatibility sake (Windows/*nix) but I don't see any docs on that kind of command.

[graphman65]

The version of python used by the virtualenv can be set using:
poetry env use <python-version/path-to-python> (eg. poetry env use 3.7)

Check #731 for more details.

[finswimmer]

This is described here as well.

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