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This is going to sound patronizing, but did you try installing an older version of Python that works?
Nope I didn't, but the problem doesn't seem to be the Python version, but instead the fact that now Python is "externally managed" and therefore I cannot install packages using
pip install packagename
as it used to be.I know that this is done for security reasons and that the good practice would be using pipx or conda, but the problem is that howdy istallation still tries to use the "old approach"
I'm no python expert but reading around it seems your only real solution is using a virtual environment, through pipx or venv as you already had found out, or using the
pip flag which, as the name suggest, should be avoided.
EDIT: After rereading I got your problem better and I was trying to read the source for Howdy to see how to do it, so far no luck.