`npm config set python` no longer supported by npm as of npm v9.0.0

[davidmurdoch]

See npm/cli#6126 for more details

[amany9000]

Also facing the same issue, @davidmurdoch did you find any solutions

[davidmurdoch]

Downgrading npm works (npm install npm@8 -g). In my case I was able to remove this step from our build process entirely and things just contributed to work perfectly fine 🤷‍♂️.

[stuartcusackie]

I'm not sure if I'm having the same issue but Gyp seems to want to use Python 3, no matter what I do:
gyp info find Python using Python version 3.11.0 found at xxx

I downgraded to node-gyp@8 but that has the same problem as version 9.
Version 7 uses the correct Python version that I have set in my environment:
npm install node-gyp@7 -g

[cclauss]

What is

the correct Python version that I have set

[stuartcusackie]

What is

the correct Python version that I have set

I mean Windows 11 Environment Variables. I have Python 2.7 higher up the load order than 3.x. Everything else follows this load order but node-gyp ignores it for some reason that I don't understand. Might be an unrelated issue...

[cclauss]

https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp#configuring-python-dependency

[lukekarrys]

The docs here no longer recommend npm config set python since https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp/pull/2880. There's nothing else to do for this in node-gyp, so I'm going to close this.