pyenv

Refactor duplicate code in tests in core and Python-Build Open

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pyenv/pyenv#3534 · Opened Sep 2, 2026

Unable to Build 3.14.6 against a source install of OpenSSL despite passing `--with-openssl` Open

third-party third-party: python

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pyenv/pyenv#3497 · 14 comments · Opened Jul 21, 2026

Harden the source for "set -euo pipefail" and potentially "set -f" Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

pyenv/pyenv#3494 · Opened Jul 17, 2026

Streamline and automate the installation procedure Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

pyenv/pyenv#3451 · Opened May 22, 2026

pyenv shim leaks all internal paths (including versions/X/bin) into child process $PATH, breaking pyenv activate for downstream tools Open

by-design

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

pyenv/pyenv#3436 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 17, 2026

`pyenv global` is pyenv-global, not user-global Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

pyenv/pyenv#3427 · 5 comments · Opened Mar 23, 2026

Building EOL Python versions, and locating/building dependencies for non-EOL versions, in a convenient way Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pyenv/pyenv#3399 · 9 comments · Opened Feb 3, 2026

Add support for pixi as package manager Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pyenv/pyenv#3349 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 20, 2025

Support mirrors of traditional type Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

pyenv/pyenv#3348 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 15, 2025

FR: Add option to sign builds on MacOS Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

pyenv/pyenv#3319 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 4, 2025

Add an `--add` option to `pyenv local` Open

type: enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

pyenv/pyenv#3288 · Opened Jul 10, 2025

Add nushell shell integration Open

type: enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

pyenv/pyenv#3202 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 21, 2025

Please add "pyenv list" - Improve usability for listing available versions Open

type: enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

pyenv/pyenv#3153 · 3 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Dec 26, 2024

Deprecate "python-" prefix Open

type: enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

pyenv/pyenv#3133 · Opened Dec 15, 2024

[Suggestion] Add "pyenv init" for the homebrew post installation script Open

type: enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pyenv/pyenv#3103 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 9, 2024

Build errors using a Samba user (Bad file Descriptor + C compiler cannot create executables) on Arch Open

third-party

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pyenv/pyenv#3100 · 7 comments · Opened Nov 1, 2024

Verify Sigstore signatures of CPython artifacts in CI Open

type: enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

pyenv/pyenv#3087 · 5 comments · Opened Oct 10, 2024

Document "python-" prefix Open

type: enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 30/100

pyenv/pyenv#3064 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 14, 2024

“ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64” when installing 3.14t-dev over a previous snapshot Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

pyenv/pyenv#3051 · 9 comments · Opened Sep 7, 2024

Having two identical executables for free-threaded version is misleading Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pyenv/pyenv#3015 · 6 comments · Opened Jul 13, 2024

Python-Build: Report envvar assignments and build command invocations Open

type: enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pyenv/pyenv#2999 · Opened Jun 30, 2024

Automate making releases after a version is added Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pyenv/pyenv#2980 · 3 reactions · Opened Jun 8, 2024

Feature request: when uninstalling python version the patch version could be not specified Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 39/100

pyenv/pyenv#2961 · 8 comments · Opened May 13, 2024

Duplicate paths in LDFLAGS on Mac Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pyenv/pyenv#2890 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Jan 28, 2024

"use openssl@<...> from homebrew" is displayed even if OpenSSL to use has been specified explicitly Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pyenv/pyenv#2852 · 6 comments · Opened Nov 26, 2023

Shims are too slow Open

discussion

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pyenv/pyenv#2802 · 10 comments · Opened Sep 29, 2023

"python" shim is not used if a user has ran it before installing the first alternative version Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

pyenv/pyenv#2732 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 21, 2023

Wiki can be edited by foreigners. Open

Difficulty 2/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 25/100

pyenv/pyenv#2710 · 7 comments · Opened Jun 6, 2023

Feature req: auto-hash-lib-py-app Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

pyenv/pyenv#2650 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 20, 2023

`pyenv init` shows wrong shell configuration instructions when a custom PYENV_ROOT is set Open

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pyenv/pyenv#2637 · Opened Mar 7, 2023

Add an option to resolve to prereleases in `pyenv install`/`pyenv latest` Open

type: enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pyenv/pyenv#2622 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 15, 2023

pyenv install 3.11.1 fails on ARM MacOS 13.1: "make: ./_bootstrap_python: Permission denied" on a Managed machine Open

third-party

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

pyenv/pyenv#2588 · 17 comments · Opened Jan 10, 2023

Request to add RustPython in the list Open

type: enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

pyenv/pyenv#2584 · 3 comments · 13 reactions · Opened Jan 5, 2023

Include debug symbols in MacOS for 3.9-3.11 Open

type: enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pyenv/pyenv#2466 · 10 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Sep 15, 2022

Pyenv Pythons use the same user site as the system Python (causes: `pyenv` does not install `pip`: "Requirement already satisfied: pip" if a Pip update is installed in `~/.local`) Open

discussion type: enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pyenv/pyenv#2417 · 19 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 25, 2022

`pyenv rehash` fails to repair shims if one of them has been accidentally overwritten with `>file` Open

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pyenv/pyenv#2378 · 14 comments · Opened May 25, 2022

Patch `ctypes` `find_library` function search path Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

pyenv/pyenv#2339 · 7 comments · Opened Apr 25, 2022

Provide prebuilt CPython for common environments Open

type: enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

pyenv/pyenv#2334 · 45 comments · 18 reactions · Opened Apr 22, 2022

pythons built with pyenv's python-build leak CFLAGS/LDFLAGS into user packages via sysconfig Open

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pyenv/pyenv#2204 · 24 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 2, 2022

Fail loudly if extension modules fail to build (e.g. _ctypes) Open

type: enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

pyenv/pyenv#2137 · 8 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Oct 29, 2021

Guide on migrating code to/from Rbenv Open

type: documentation

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

pyenv/pyenv#2108 · 4 comments · Opened Oct 16, 2021

Python-Build: parse flag envvars correctly Open

type: bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

pyenv/pyenv#2083 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 1, 2021

`pyenv do` as an easier alternative to `PYENV_VERSION= pyenv exec` Open

type: enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

pyenv/pyenv#1932 · 6 comments · 14 reactions · Opened May 18, 2021

Improvement: Follow XDG config spec Open

type: enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

pyenv/pyenv#1789 · 7 comments · 37 reactions · Opened Jan 24, 2021

SQLite extension support Open

type: enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

pyenv/pyenv#1702 · 12 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 28, 2020

Add option prevent PYENV_PYTHON_MIRROR_URL to fallback to default setup Open

type: enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

pyenv/pyenv#1648 · 11 reactions · Opened Jul 2, 2020

`pyenv uninstall` should remove downloaded sources Open

type: enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

pyenv/pyenv#1627 · 8 comments · Opened Jun 6, 2020

Passing a path to OpenSSL in CFLAGS+LDFLAGS has no effect in MacOS without Homebrew Open

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pyenv/pyenv#1624 · 6 comments · 11 reactions · Opened May 23, 2020

Utilize pyproject.toml (PEP518) Open

type: enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

pyenv/pyenv#1233 · 13 comments · 128 reactions · Opened Oct 30, 2018

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