Invalid author string. Must be in the format: John Smith <[email protected]>

Package:

poetry

16152

Exception Class:

ValueError

Raise code

or = author or default

        if author in ["n", "no"]:
            return

        m = AUTHOR_REGEX.match(author)
        if not m:
            raise ValueError(
                "Invalid author string. Must be in the format: "
                "John Smith <[email protected]>"
            )

        return author

    def _validate_license(self, license: str) -> str:
        from

Links to the raise (1)

https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/blob/9591e88492508d4dba260952d53266a0032c04c7/poetry/console/commands/init.py#L537

Ways to fix

Summary: author string must be in the format "John Smith <[email protected]>", name goes before the email with a space in-between and the email is wrapped using <>

To reproduce error:

pipenv install poetry

from poetry.console.commands.init import InitCommand

i = InitCommand
author = "<[email protected]> Joe Swanson"
default = ""
print(i._validate_author(i, author, default))

Working Code:

from poetry.console.commands.init import InitCommand

i = InitCommand
author = "Joe Swanson <[email protected]>"
default = ""
print(i._validate_author(i, author, default))

Outputs:

Joe Swanson <[email protected]>

Jun 02, 2021

adrianpicciau 126

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