# deadsnakes-action

**Repository Path**: mirrors_glensc/deadsnakes-action

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: deadsnakes-action
- **Description**: a GitHub action to install (pre-release) pythons from deadsnakes
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: main
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2022-11-09
- **Last Updated**: 2026-02-08

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deadsnakes/action
=================

a GitHub action to install (pre-release) pythons from [deadsnakes]

[deadsnakes]: https://github.com/deadsnakes

### using this action

To use this action, add it adjacent to `setup-python` and opt into it
conditionally.  Here's an example which uses `python-version` as a matrix.

```yaml
on:
  push:

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    strategy:
      matrix:
        python-version: [3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9-dev, 3.10-dev]
    name: main
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - uses: actions/setup-python@v2
        if: "!endsWith(matrix.python-version, '-dev')"
        with:
          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
      - uses: deadsnakes/action@v2.1.1
        if: endsWith(matrix.python-version, '-dev')
        with:
          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
          # debug: true  # Optional, to select a Python debug build
      - run: python --version --version && which python
```

### available versions

- to use nightly builds, add `-dev` to the end of the version name.
    - [available nightly versions]
- to use tagged builds, just use the version number
    - [available versions]

In either case, the actions's `debug` input can be used to install a
debug build of the selected Python version, by adding `debug: true`.

note: this action is incompatible with ubuntu-16.04 due to a limitation in
`add-apt-repository`

[available nightly versions]: https://launchpad.net/~deadsnakes/+archive/ubuntu/nightly/+packages
[available versions]: https://launchpad.net/~deadsnakes/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+packages