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Not really. Not under OSX, brew makes this simple. Under Linux, worst case, you just download the source and compile it. (Not sure about Windows though.)

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Brew makes this easy? Are you sure? I installed python 3.9 with brew and it’s magically become a 3.10 install by upgrading another package

The version pinning on brew certainly isn't great, but you can do:

> brew install python@3.9 python@3.10 python@3.11

And pyenv is a wrapper around “downloading the source and compiling it”.

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