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Can you provide instructions on how to set up Python on my local machine? I have a Mac. I've been playing with 'conda' as advised by other tutorials. It've all very confusing and badly documented. I've gotten as far as this error when I try to do the "amplify push" command:

Warning: Python 3.8 was not found on your system...
Neither 'pyenv' nor 'asdf' could be found to install Python.
You can specify specific versions of Python with:
$ pipenv --python path/to/python
🛑 Failed to install dependencies in /Users/alexworden/dev/career-agent/career-agent-app/amplify/backend/function/threadMgmt: Error: Command failed with exit code 1: pipenv install

Python 3.8 seems too old, I'm on Python 3.10.10 - is this causing the problem? What is pyenv or asdf? Nothing seems to know what these things are in my google or gpt searches.