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I am going through a Django tutorial but it's an old one. The videos were all made using Django 1.11 and Python 3.6. Problem is I have installed python3.8 in my machine. So I was trying to create virtualenv with python version 3.6. But as python 3.6 is not available in my machine, I couldn't do that. At this point I was wondering even if it is actually possible to have both python 3.6 and python 3.8 in a machine at same time.

Kindly someone help me with this problem or point me to the right resource to understand more on this problem.

shravan konduru
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  • That's probably better than my initial link: https://towardsdatascience.com/environment-management-with-conda-python-2-3-b9961a8a5097 – MjH Dec 27 '19 at 19:48
  • You should not have a problem because of 3.8 to 3.6 alone. But I still recommend that you figure out how to have several versions side by side and use a virtualenv, specially when dealing with django. – progmatico Dec 27 '19 at 20:00
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    Does this answer your question? [How to run multiple Python versions on Windows](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4583367/how-to-run-multiple-python-versions-on-windows) … https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2547554/multiple-python-versions-on-the-same-machine – wwii Dec 27 '19 at 20:00

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It is possible to have two versions of python installed on the same machine. You might have to do some path manipulation to get things working, depending on the specifics of your setup. You can also probably just follow along with the tutorial using python 3.8 even if the tutorial it-self uses 3.6.

You can also use the python launcher to manage multiple versions of python installed on the same machine: https://docs.python.org/3/using/windows.html#python-launcher-for-windows

tantalum
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Yes. You can have both versions installed on single machine. All u need to do is to download Python3.6 from its Official site, set your Interpreter to python3.6 and u r all set.

Devansh Soni
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