What's a good way to get python 3.7+ (with pip) onto a non-python project?

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I’ve got a an android project and I need to have python 3.7+ and pip on the command line. Xenial seems to be providing 3.4 (documentation says 3.5 but that’s not what I see), Focal 3.6, Bionic 3.2 (again, documentation says 3.6). Also, despite what the documentation says, the build works only when I don’t specify dist: trusty.

How do I go about installing python 3.7+ and pip?

What I tried:

  • addons:
  apt:
    sources:
      - deadsnakes
    packages:
      - python3.7

    This doesn’t come with pip

  • same, but with with packages like this:

        packages:
    - python3.7-dev
    - python3-pip

    This fails due to incompatibility between the two packages

  •     packages:
    - python3.7-venv

before_script:
  - python3.7 -m venv ~/venv
  - source ~/venv/bin/activate

    This fails due to the following:

    pip is configured with locations that require TLS/SSL, however the ssl module in Python is not available.

    Including libssl-dev or python3-openssl doesn’t help. A similar error breaks the following:

    before_script:
  - curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | sudo python3.7 -

  •     packages:
    - python3.7-venv

before_script:
  - python3.7 -m ensurepip --upgrade

    This fails due to:

    No module named ensurepip

  • before_script:
  - pyenv install --skip-existing 3.6.0 && pyenv global 3.6.0

    this works, but the highest stable version is somehow 3.6, and also this slows down the build considerably

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  • Use dist: focal which comes with 3.8.2; or
  • install the necessary version with pyenv and cache the result