Python 3.13 support

[fry69]

Aider must be installed with python 3.9 - 3.12. You can't install it directly with python 3.13.

That said, there are very easy ways for python3.13 users to install aider. These methods will quickly and seamlessly install python3.12 and aider and all its dependencies in an isolated environment.

With aider-install

python -m pip install aider-install
aider-install

One-liners

These one-liners will install aider, along with python 3.12 if needed. They are based on the uv installers.

Windows

powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://aider.chat/install.ps1 | iex"

Mac & Linux

Use curl to download the script and execute it with sh:

curl -LsSf https://aider.chat/install.sh | sh

If your system doesn't have curl, you can use wget:

wget -qO- https://aider.chat/install.sh | sh

Install with uv

You can install aider with uv:

python -m pip install uv  # If you need to install uv
uv tool install --force --python python3.12 aider-chat@latest

This will install uv using your existing python version 3.8-3.13, and use it to install aider. If needed, uv will automatically install a separate python 3.12 to use with aider.

Also see the docs on other methods for installing uv itself.

[Faolain]

Related ticket/comment Aider-AI/grep-ast#7 (comment)

[pchaganti]

Seeing the same error on Mac with python 3.13.

#300 (comment)

[atemerev]

On tree-sitter-languages, there is no activity in their repo since Feb 4th, 2024. Would it be possible to fork / vendor it? Or invent any other workaround?

Python 3.13 is the default in Fedora and Mac/Homebrew now, so we should think of something.

[Kreijstal]

@atemerev https://github.com/Goldziher/tree-sitter-language-pack ?

[themanyone]

I can install with Python 3.13 by batching the install with tree-sitter-languages from git. After git clone

pip install -U . ../py-tree-sitter-languages/

I'll tell aider bot to fix audioop deprecation. Pull request pending

[highdealist]

Failed to install on Windows 11 with python 3.13
Worked fine with 3.12
I am noob so kinda just deleted all my system files trying to fix this
Just kidding
kinda

Collecting numpy==1.24.3 (from aider-chat)
  Downloading numpy-1.24.3.tar.gz (10.9 MB)
     ---------------------------------------- 10.9/10.9 MB 5.7 MB/s eta 0:00:00
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [32 lines of output]
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "C:\Program Files\Python313\Lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pyproject_hooks\_in_process\_in_process.py", line 353, in <module>
          main()
          ~~~~^^
        File "C:\Program Files\Python313\Lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pyproject_hooks\_in_process\_in_process.py", line 335, in main
          json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs'])
                                   ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "C:\Program Files\Python313\Lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pyproject_hooks\_in_process\_in_process.py", line 112, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
          backend = _build_backend()
        File "C:\Program Files\Python313\Lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pyproject_hooks\_in_process\_in_process.py", line 77, in _build_backend
          obj = import_module(mod_path)
        File "C:\Program Files\Python313\Lib\importlib\__init__.py", line 88, in import_module
          return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1387, in _gcd_import
        File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1360, in _find_and_load
        File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1310, in _find_and_load_unlocked
        File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 488, in _call_with_frames_removed
        File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1387, in _gcd_import
        File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1360, in _find_and_load
        File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1331, in _find_and_load_unlocked
        File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 935, in _load_unlocked
        File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 1026, in exec_module
        File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 488, in _call_with_frames_removed
        File "C:\Users\Fuckmaster\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-cwqnqar7\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\__init__.py", line 16, in <module>
          import setuptools.version
        File "C:\Users\Fuckmaster\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-cwqnqar7\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\version.py", line 1, in <module>
          import pkg_resources
        File "C:\Users\Fuckmaster\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-cwqnqar7\overlay\Lib\site-packages\pkg_resources\__init__.py", line 2172, in <module>
          register_finder(pkgutil.ImpImporter, find_on_path)
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
      AttributeError: module 'pkgutil' has no attribute 'ImpImporter'. Did you mean: 'zipimporter'?
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> See above for output.

[themanyone]

Ah, the old pkgutil ImpImporter shuffle. The ImpImporter class was removed from pkgutil in Python 3.4, and pip versions older than 10.0.0 relied on it. The message should say, "Hey, this pip is old. Want me to update it?" But instead we get an update command that doesn't work. pip install --upgrade pip might work. Didn't work for me. I wound up downloading pip and manually copying it to where it needs to go.

[paul-gauthier]

It should be easy to install aider with uv even if your system python is 3.13:

python -m pip install uv  # If you need to install uv
uv tool install --python python3.12 aider-chat

https://aider.chat/docs/install/uv.html

[paul-gauthier]

I've also got an even easier experimental install method you could try. I would love feedback on whether it works well for you.

python -m pip install aider-install
aider-install

For more info see the README:
https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider-install

[sam2kb]

I've also got an even easier experimental install method you could try. I would love feedback on whether it works well for you.

python -m pip install aider-install
aider-install

For more info see the README: https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider-install

this worked on win11 with python 3.13

[Kreijstal]

this worked on win11 with python 3.13

this just uses python 3.12 on the bg?

[paul-gauthier]

this just uses python 3.12 on the bg?

Yes.

[Kreijstal]

archlinux just broke, we can't install aider-chat with pipx anymore, oh well, it was eating my claude allowance like crazy anyway

kreijstal@kreijstalnuc:~/git/a749bb4442714515f93efdb7f6306e69$ python --version
Python 3.13.1

[paul-gauthier]

Replacing this with #3037.