Upgrade to v3.3.0 installs wrong Python version on Apple ARM

[Jason2866]

@ivankravets
Upgrading installs a non native Python version on Apple Silicon. Instead of an Apple ARM python version a Apple x86 python version is installed. This brakes any use of native Apple ARM tools and toolchains.

Please provide a native Python version for Apple ARM.

[ivankravets]

A temporary solution is to disable platformio-ide.useBuiltinPython setting. Remove ~/.platformio/penv and ~/.platformio/python3 folders. Restart VSCode.

[Jason2866]

Just did this already to solve ;-)

[e7h4n]

I got the same error, it really hard to find the root cause :(

[Jason2866]

@ivankravets Any news, this is not a minor bug. It brakes every clean fresh installation on Apple ARM.
Building an portable Python seems not so hard. Tried this with Github Actions.
https://github.com/Jason2866/python-portable-darwin_arm

[ivankravets]

@Jason2866 , thanks for the GH workflow! Great idea!

Could you update it to let GH prepare portable archives for x64 and arm? I’m owner of 2019 Intel-based MacBook Pro, I can test the x64 version.

Thanks!

[Jason2866]

@ivankravets Now for both architectures
https://github.com/Jason2866/python-portable-darwin_arm/releases

[ivankravets]

Could you remove the following folders?

• ~/.platformio/.cache
• ~/.platformio/penv
• ~/.platformio/python3

Please ensure that platformio-ide.useBuiltinPIOCore and platformio-ide.useBuiltinPython options are enabled in the PlatformIO IDE for VSCode.

Does it work now?

[Jason2866]

Yes, it does work now!

[ivankravets]

Thanks a lot for the idea with the GH actions 🙏

[Jason2866]

@ivankravets Stumbled over this official Github repo https://github.com/actions/python-versions
Maybe you can use in future, avoiding double work?

[ivankravets]

Their packages are OS-dependent and require superuser access. Indeed, we use official Windows packages from python.org and the only macOS packages are cross-compiled to portable format.