This action provides the following functionality for GitHub Actions users:

• Installing a version of Python or PyPy and (by default) adding it to the PATH, including Python 2.7.

The action was developed after GitHub decided to remove support for Python 2.7 from their actions/setup-python action.

See action.yml

Python

steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- uses: LizardByte/setup-python-action@master
  with:
    python-version: '3.10'
- run: python my_script.py

Python 2.7

steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- uses: LizardByte/setup-python-action@master
  with:
    python-version: '2.7'
- run: python my_script.py

PyPy

steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- uses: LizardByte/setup-python-action@master
  with:
    python-version: 'pypy3.9'
- run: python my_script.py

The python-version input is required.

If the version of Python is not 2.7 the action will use actions/setup-python and pass the version to that action. Otherwise, it will install Python 2.7 on your platform.

The scripts and documentation in this project are released under the MIT License.

Contributions are welcome! See our Contributor's Guide.