setup-python.yml

description: "The token used to authenticate when fetching Python distributions from https://github.com/actions/python-versions. When running this action on github.com, the default value is sufficient. When running on GHES, you can pass a personal access token for github.com if you are experiencing rate limiting."
    default: ${{ github.server_url == 'https://github.com' && github.token || '' }}
  cache-dependency-path:
    description: "Used to specify the path to dependency files. Supports wildcards or a list of file names for caching multiple dependencies."
  update-environment:
    description: "Set this option if you want the action to update environment variables."
    default: true
  allow-prereleases:
    description: "When 'true', a version range passed to 'python-version' input will match prerelease versions if no GA versions are found. Only 'x.y' version range is supported for CPython."
    default: false
outputs:
  python-version:
    description: "The installed Python or PyPy version. Useful when given a version range as input."
  cache-hit:
    description: "A boolean value to indicate a cache entry was found"
  python-path:
    description: "The absolute path to the Python or PyPy executable."
runs:
  using: 'node20'
  main: 'dist/setup/index.js'
  post: 'dist/cache-save/index.js'
  post-if: success()
branding:
  icon: 'code'
  color: 'yellow'