Is there an environment variable i can set to direct applications to a specific version of python?

General system Applications
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I have a good couple versions of python installed, seems a lot of apps don’t want to play well with python 3.12 and i can’t exactly uninstall it because there are things that depend on it and the system expects it to be there, but i also have 3.11 and 3.10.

Is there an environment variable i could set so a program would try to use one of those instead of 3.12 when i run it?

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You need to setup a virtual environment:

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how do i make sure an application uses the venv i set up tho?

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You activate the virtual environment, which modifies the PATH environment variable so that the correct Python interpreter and installed packages are used. Then you run the application like normal.