# I'm confused regarding python version in anaconda

**URL:** <https://forum.anaconda.com/t/im-confused-regarding-python-version-in-anaconda/17019>\
**Category:** Anaconda & Miniconda\
**Created:** [March 31, 2022, 3:21pm UTC](https://forum.anaconda.com/t/im-confused-regarding-python-version-in-anaconda/17019 "2022-03-31T15:21:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Peter\_Krauspe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f5a800/32.png) [@Peter\_Krauspe](https://forum.anaconda.com/u/Peter_Krauspe)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 3:21pm UTC](https://forum.anaconda.com/t/im-confused-regarding-python-version-in-anaconda/17019/1 "2022-03-31T15:21:49Z")

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Hello all,

A few days ago I installed the latest anaconda distribution and got a python 3.10 by default !  
As I downloaded and installed today on another PC, I got python 3.9 again instaedt .  
How can this happen ? (I did no upgrades)  
What is the current default python version ?

Regards  
PM

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**Author:** ![CrystalS](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/anaconda/user_avatar/forum.anaconda.com/crystals/32/569_2.png) [@CrystalS](https://forum.anaconda.com/u/CrystalS)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 4:56pm UTC](https://forum.anaconda.com/t/im-confused-regarding-python-version-in-anaconda/17019/2 "2022-04-04T16:56:52Z")

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I’m very surprised to hear you got an installed environment with Python 3.10. Python 3.10 was released in the fall and we’ve been building Python 3.10 packages for all the platforms we support - but some projects do not yet support it, so we do not yet consider it the default for Anaconda. The Anaconda Individual Edition installers from this past fall were built with Python 3.9. The current plan is to release the next installer version with Python 3.9 as well. If you could provide a link or the name of the installer that gave you the Python 3.10 environment that would be very helpful!

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Krauspe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f5a800/32.png) [@Peter\_Krauspe](https://forum.anaconda.com/u/Peter_Krauspe)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 7:28am UTC](https://forum.anaconda.com/t/im-confused-regarding-python-version-in-anaconda/17019/3 "2022-04-08T07:28:32Z")

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Hi @CrystalS ,

meanwhile I remembered that the installation with 3.10 was a Linux version which I installed on CentOS. Since I installed (the community edition of) Anaconda on several Linux and WIndows machines I forgot that 3.10 was only on Linux.  
Unfortuntalely I don’t have the link to that installer anymore

(base) root@xxx:~/rpmbuild/BUILD/venv/bin[LGNLX3]# python  
Python 3.10.4 | packaged by conda-forge | (main, Mar 24 2022, 17:38:57) [GCC 10.3.0] on linux  
Type “help”, “copyright”, “credits” or “license” for more information.

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regards  
PK

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**Author:** ![CrystalS](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/anaconda/user_avatar/forum.anaconda.com/crystals/32/569_2.png) [@CrystalS](https://forum.anaconda.com/u/CrystalS)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2022, 6:57pm UTC](https://forum.anaconda.com/t/im-confused-regarding-python-version-in-anaconda/17019/4 "2022-04-15T18:57:57Z")

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Ah - looks like you installed Miniforge on that machine (it says “packaged by conda-forge”) - and it has Python 3.10.4 as the base. Anaconda & Miniconda currently are still using Python 3.9 as the base.

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Krauspe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f5a800/32.png) [@Peter\_Krauspe](https://forum.anaconda.com/u/Peter_Krauspe)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2022, 6:50pm UTC](https://forum.anaconda.com/t/im-confused-regarding-python-version-in-anaconda/17019/5 "2022-04-16T18:50:28Z")

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No ist was the complete Anakonda Linux distribution , it had 3.10 out of the box.