pdm venv create succeeds/fails alternately

[mjmare]

I want to create a script that create a new venv, possibly removing an existing venv if necessary. I thought the --force option would help with this.
As you may see below the command pdm venv create -n pdmtest --force will create the venv the first time, fail to do so the second time, succeed the third time etc etc.

❯ pdm venv list
Virtualenvs created with this project:

❯ pdm venv create -n pdmtest --force
Virtualenv /Users/mjm/Library/Application Support/pdm/venvs/PDMTest-VrAcEGgJ-pdmtest is created successfully
❯ pdm venv list
Virtualenvs created with this project:

*  pdmtest: /Users/mjm/Library/Application Support/pdm/venvs/PDMTest-VrAcEGgJ-pdmtest
❯ pdm venv create -n pdmtest --force
Cleaning existing target directory /Users/mjm/Library/Application Support/pdm/venvs/PDMTest-VrAcEGgJ-pdmtest
[VirtualenvCreateError]: Command '['/usr/local/Cellar/pdm/2.12.3/libexec/bin/python', '-m', 'virtualenv', '/Users/mjm/Library/Application 
Support/pdm/venvs/PDMTest-VrAcEGgJ-pdmtest', '-p', '/Users/mjm/Library/Application Support/pdm/venvs/PDMTest-VrAcEGgJ-pdmtest/bin/python', 
'--prompt=pdmtest-3.12', '--no-pip', '--no-setuptools', '--no-wheel']' returned non-zero exit status 1.
❯ pdm venv list
Virtualenvs created with this project:

❯ pdm venv create -n pdmtest --force
Virtualenv /Users/mjm/Library/Application Support/pdm/venvs/PDMTest-VrAcEGgJ-pdmtest is created successfully

[mjmare]

I have discovered that I can work around this problem by doing:

pdm venv purge -f
pdm venv create -n pdmtest

[mjmare]

Thanks!