The problem I recently tried installing pythonpy using pipx, but whenever I run any command using py, I see the following traceback: $ py '2-3' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/m/.local/bin/py", line 5, in <module> from pythonpy.__main__ import main File "/home/m/.local/share/pipx/venvs/pythonpy/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pythonpy/__main__.py", line 16, in <module> from collections import Iterable ImportError: cannot import name 'Iterable' from 'collections' (/usr/lib/python3.12/collections/__init__.py) Installation How I installed py $ sudo apt install pipx $ pipx install pythonpy $ pipx ensurepath Additional information pipx list output: venvs are in /home/m/.local/share/pipx/venvs apps are exposed on your $PATH at /home/m/.local/bin manual pages are exposed at /home/m/.local/share/man package pythonpy 0.4.11, installed using Python 3.12.3 - find_pycompletion.sh - py - py3 - py3.1 - pycompleter - pycompleter3 - pycompleter3.1 Versions: Python version: Python 3.12.3 pipx version: pipx 1.4.3 OS: Ubuntu 24.04.02 LTS kernel 5.15) Note: That sudo apt install python3-py also gives an unsatisfying result by causing py to throw Syntaxerrors. The answer provided in this stackoflow question link is not intended to work on the newer versions of Ubuntu, since the new pip will give error: externally-managed-environment when installing packages. Question How can make sure that this pipx installed py command works without error? Continue reading...
