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comment out python install, see Troggle Dev laptop instead - online edit of handbook/computing/wsllaptop.html [PosixPath('/home/philip/expo/expoweb/handbook/computing/wsllaptop.html')]

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@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ Now finally you can use all the usual command line tools at your wsl command lin
<p>WSL installs python by default, but it may be a rather old python (depending on the history of your laptop, phase of moon etc.) and if you want development speed you want python3.13. [NB check what version of python is running on the server. It was 3.11.2 in December 2024.]. <p>WSL installs python by default, but it may be a rather old python (depending on the history of your laptop, phase of moon etc.) and if you want development speed you want python3.13. [NB check what version of python is running on the server. It was 3.11.2 in December 2024.].
<p>We used to have lengthy instructions fo installing python using "deadsnakes" but since December 2024 we just use the <var>uv</var> utility for everything. <p>We used to have lengthy instructions fo installing python using "deadsnakes" but since December 2024 we just use the <var>uv</var> utility for everything.
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<p>To install python3.11 and pip follow <a href="https://www.linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-python-3-11-on-ubuntu-linux/">these instructions</a> to the letter. But that's not enough, you need to configure pip to work properly with python3.11 (this is because it's a bit bleeding edge as yet), so you ALSO then need to re-install the latest with: <p>To install python3.11 and pip follow <a href="https://www.linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-python-3-11-on-ubuntu-linux/">these instructions</a> to the letter. But that's not enough, you need to configure pip to work properly with python3.11 (this is because it's a bit bleeding edge as yet), so you ALSO then need to re-install the latest with:
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<p>The error you are trying to get rid of when attempting to use pip looks like this:<br /> <p>The error you are trying to get rid of when attempting to use pip looks like this:<br />
<var>ImportError: cannot import name 'html5lib' from ...</var> <var>ImportError: cannot import name 'html5lib' from ...</var>
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<h3>WSL1 Historic problems</h3> <h3>WSL1 Historic problems</h3>
<a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/compare-versions?source=recommendations">WSL2 is now noticeably even slower</a> for NTFS files mounted as /mnt/c or /mnt/d, so now it is only really useable if you move all the troggle code into your Linux filespace on <var>\\wsl.localhost\Ubuntu-22.04\home</var> which means that those files will only be accesible from Linux. Buggeration. <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/compare-versions?source=recommendations">WSL2 is now noticeably even slower</a> for NTFS files mounted as /mnt/c or /mnt/d, so now it is only really useable if you move all the troggle code into your Linux filespace on <var>\\wsl.localhost\Ubuntu-22.04\home</var> which means that those files will only be accesible from Linux. Buggeration.