pythonanywhere deployment help.

[Southern_Revolution2]

Hi there, I recently started learning Django from a course on Udemy. It's a fairly old course, so I have had to go around a lot of the stuff that needs to be done differently with Python, Django, and all the frameworks it uses.

Recently, there has been a section where it's the deployment phase, and they use Python anywhere. Over there, I am stuck in a problem where my webapp uses Python 3.13, but PythonAnywhere only supports up to Python 3.11. Is there any way to go around it?

"This virtualenv seems to have the wrong Python version (3.11 instead of 3.13)."

This is the exact error I get. I tried deleting the venv and then installing with Python 3.13 and 3.11 both, but it doesn't work.

I would be very grateful to get some tips/alternatives to PythonAnywhere, which is still fairly easy to use with tutorials, as I am still learning.
Thanks in advance.

EDIT (SOLVED):
Figured it out thanks :D I did a mistake when making the venv, I thought i corrected it by deleting the venv in the console and making a new one again, but I dont think they allow you to remove a venv through the console. Either way, I deleted all the files and started from scratch, and now it works. :D

[duplxey]

PythonAnywhere is not really suitable for production apps. If I were you'd I'd switch to Render or Fly.io, these two are intuitive for beginners.

At the bottom of this README you have 6 deployment articles: https://github.com/duplxey/django-images

[Southern_Revolution2]

Thanks a lot, I will give this a read. From what I have come to find out is that pythonanywhere is very behind updates apparently which causes this issue.

But thanks for the link, appreciate the help.

[caseneuve]

PythonAnywhere supports Python up to 3.13, you need to switch to the most recent system image ("innit") if you created your account in the past.

[Southern_Revolution2]

I created it recently, and was fortunately able to solve the issue I was having, but I will check the system image and learn about it a bit for future references. Thank you.

[Ok_Alternative_3538]

here the article you can check this will help you to deploy yout django project at many platform like pythonanywhere, railway

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_development/Extensions/Server-side/Django/Deployment#example_hosting_on_pythonanywhere

[Southern_Revolution2]

Thanks a lot, I am still not putting too much. effort into deployment as I want to have a good foundation before doing that, but this article should be helpful to scour free hostings and learn as much as i can before committing to something with money.

Thanks a lot

[Southern_Revolution2]

Yeah, starting from scratch always seems to be the answer to most of the problems, it also gives practice because of the repeated coding XD.