How to downgrade python version on Colab to 3.9

[abishpius]

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-downgrade-python-version-in-colab/

tl;dr
step1: !sudo apt-get install python3.9
step2: !sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python3 python3 /usr/bin/python3.9 1

reap the benefits: !python --version

[evonneng]

Oh awesome! Thanks a bunch for this pointer. I’ll test it out and update the collab soon 😊

[abishpius]

You will also need to use !pip3 in all the future executions of pip just fyi