Unable to deploy shiny app with Python 3.11.2

[wch]

Here's the output:

$ venv/bin/rsconnect deploy shiny -n colorado .
    Warning: Capturing the environment using 'pip freeze'.
             Consider creating a requirements.txt file instead.
venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/rsconnect/environment.py:158: DeprecationWarning: Use setlocale(), getencoding() and getlocale() instead
  result = ".".join([item or "" for item in locale_source()])
Validating server... 	[OK]
Validating app mode... 	[OK]
Making bundle ... 	[OK]
Deploying bundle ... 	[OK]
Saving deployed information... 	[OK]
Building Python Shiny application...
Cannot find compatible environment: no compatible Kubernetes environment with Python version 3.11.2
An error occurred while building the content (build-failed-error)
Error from Connect server: Cannot find compatible environment: no compatible Kubernetes environment with Python version 3.11.2
Error: Task exited with status 1.

Is there a way to tell it to deploy using a specific version of Python (without having to install that version of Python)?

[mmarchetti]

The simplest way is to run rsconnect write-manifest shiny ... and then change the Python version in the manifest. This generally works unless you have package versions pinned that aren't compatible with the new Python version.