Download and Install Python Interpreter from the Internet

[Werni2A]

Hi, everyone.

Depending on the project I'm working on I need different versions of Python that I want to install inside the virtual environment created by pipenv. This works fine with pipenv --python $VERSION in case I have the requested Python version installed on my host OS. If the requested version is not installed I download the 'embeddable packge' (e.g. https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.9.7/python-3.9.7-embed-amd64.zip) from the official Python website, extract it and install it via pipenv --python $INTERPRETER_PATH_OF_DOWNLOADED_PYTHON.

I haven't found a command line option to instruct pipenv to automatically download the requested Python version and install it into the virtual environment. This would make my workflow a lot easier. Pardon me if I've overlooked this feature in the documentation but if not, what do you think about this feature?

Any chance this will be implemented?

BR
Dominik

[kalebmckale]

I suggest using pyenv for handling different Python versions.

Here's the location in pipenv documentation: https://pipenv.pypa.io/en/latest/advanced/#automatic-python-installation

[Werni2A]

Thank you, this is basically what I was looking for. Unfortunately, pyenv doesn't support Windows by itself but pyenv-win does. I have to check out the workflow and play with it for some time. It would be great if pipenv could call either pyenv or pyenv-win depending on the host OS (maybe this already works out of the box, haven't checked it yet).

[kalebmckale]

Seems like it was something solved back in 2022: #4949

[matteius]

This already works out of the box -- I use pyenv-win on Windows with pipenv.