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Machine learning packages a step behind python releases. Python is upgraded to 3.8 in arch linux based distros recently, but pytorch and tensorflow support up to 3.7 yet

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downgrade python for pytorch and tensorflow, 3.8 to 3.7.md

downgrade python for pytorch and tensorflow

1. install the required version of python

On arch linux python37 from AUR, using yay:

yay -S python37

2. create the virtual environment with the installed version of python

python3.7 -m venv venv

3. Activate the venv

#Fish shell:
source venv/bin/activate.fish

#Bash and friends:
source venv/bin/activate

4. install the required packages on the activated venv

pip3 install torch torchvision
pip install tensorflow-gpu