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Python for Actions

This repository contains the code and scripts that we use to build Python packages used in runner-images and accessible through the setup-python Action. File versions-manifest.json contains the list of available and released versions.

Caution: this is prepared for and only permitted for use by actions runner-images and setup-python action.

Some versions are pre-installed on runner-images images. More versions are available to install on-the-fly through the setup-python action.

Building installation packages

Ubuntu: The official Python sources are downloaded from python.org, built with additional configurations using the make tool and archived along with the installation script for further distribution and installation. We build a Python version against all available Ubuntu versions.

macOS:

  • Python < 3.11. The official Python sources are downloaded from python.org, built with additional configurations using the make tool and archived along with the installation script for further distribution and installation. We build a Python version against the oldest available macOS version for backward compatibility. Available macOS GitHub-hosted runners can be found here.
  • Python >= 3.11. The official macOS universal2 Python binaries are simply downloaded from python.org and archived along with the installation script for further distribution and installation.

Windows: The official Python executables are simply downloaded from python.org and archived along with the installation script for further distribution and installation.

Support policy

We are trying to build and release new versions of Python as soon as they are released. Both stable and unstable versions are considered for building and releasing. Please open an issue in actions/setup-python if any versions are missed.

When a new version of operating system is released and available for use as a GitHub hosted runner, we will build the latest existing patch version of Python for all major versions that have not reached EOL. Please see the status of Python versions for more information about supported versions. All new versions of Python released after the new OS version is added will also be built for it.

Contribution

Contributions are welcome! See Contributor's Guide for more details about contribution process and code structure