add flag --use-env to poetry commands

[finswimmer]

The PR adds a new global parameter --use-env. It adds the ability to tell poetry which python executable it should use in the same way poetry env use can do it.

The benefits of the parameter are:

• running commands in several environments without switching the default python executable first
• if in-project venvs are used, there is no need to add an entry to the envs.toml

I haven't add any tests until now. Recommendations are welcome :)

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Resolves: #issue-number-here

• Added tests for changed code.
• Updated documentation for changed code.

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[felipou]

I was about to create a PR with a similar idea that I started coding yesterday, but found this PR when looking for more references now.

My idea was to create a new config virtualenvs.default-executable, which could be a path for a python executable, but with two special values: "system" (the default, keeping the same behavior as today, that is, using sys.executable) and shell which would use shutil.which("python") to get the currently active Python version in the shell. I have no idea if that would be portable, I only use poetry on Linux.

I even wrote some simple code for that, but as I was testing and reviewing, I noticed that the version check code was only for the sys.executable python, so this would require modifying the existing code a lot more (which seemed very risk to me, since it was the first time I was looking at this project's code).

But anyway, I think this would be a lot better (for me at least), since I would only need to change the configuration globally once, and poetry would work as needed for all my project when using pyenv.

[finswimmer]

@felipou: I have another proof-of-concept here: #4852 Would be happy if you could test it.

[felipou]

@felipou: I have another proof-of-concept here: #4852 Would be happy if you could test it.

Interesting, very similar idea. Just by looking at the code, it seems to be working. I'll see if I can test it sometime soon.

I liked how you implemented it without modifying the existing code much, and also how you picked the shell python executable by executing a command instead of using shutil.which as I had suggested. Seems to me like your approach would probably be more portable, but it's just a guess.

[finswimmer]

Closing this in favor of #4852.

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