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Whenever I open a file in vim and type :!python3, python3.8 opens. However, I want it to refer to python3.9.

How do I change it?

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  • Welcome to Vi and Vim! Note that :! will run a non-interactive shell by default. Depending on the shell used, some initialization files may be skipped, e.g. Bash will not read ~/.bashrc when started non-interactively. Hypothesis: you happen to append to PATH or define an alias for Python and it's not available. Refer to your shell's documentation or edit and clarify. Commented May 3 at 14:36

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:!python3 calls the first python3 executable found in $PATH, which is probably a link of sort to python3.8.

If you want it to be a link to something else, then do it at the system level. Refer to Python's documentation for how to do that.

This has nothing to do with Vim.

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