There exist an issue with installing the PlatformIO on vscode.
The issue is that Platformio requires an obsolete version (3.6) of Python3 and doesn’t allow to install on a systems with a newer version is installed.
Please urgently fix it
What? The latest PlatformIO core supports Python 3.13. That came out only last week (7th of October). You can use the latest stable Python release with PlatformIO. Where is a Python version of 3.6 forced? What’s the error message here?
I myself am running PlatformIO on Python 3.11 just fine.
>pio system info
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PlatformIO Core 6.1.16
Python 3.11.4-final.0
System Type windows_amd64
Platform Windows-10
And PlatformIO’s CI is running on Python 3.9 just fine, too. So, the last 4 years of Python release up to the latest one is supported. There should be zero issues.
Strange… I had just downloaded a fresh vscode and in it the Platformio extension and I get the prompt that it requires Python 3.6+, even if I have Python3.12 already installed.
Recieved message:
PlatformIO: Can not find working Python 3.6+ Interpreter. Please install the latest Python 3 and restart VSCode
Try to use the installer script to install the core.
Note that this requires, on Linux systems,
sudo apt install python3-venv
See
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It worked, thanks. It would be great if on the page with installation instructions and in the INSTALL file would be listed the required packages to make it work 
Right now it’s only documented in
https://docs.platformio.org/en/latest/integration/ide/vscode.html#installation