I encountered an issue when following the installation instructions for the codebase, which recommend Python 3.6+ as the required version (i was using 3.12 the default python version for ubuntu 24.04).

It worked when I used Python3.10. So I made a script to run the Pip and make/pip commands.

The Pip commands worked for Python version 3.9, 3.10.
The make/pip commands worked for Python version 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11.

Here is the script I ran for reference -
test-script-pip.sh

#!/bin/bash VERSIONS=("3.6" "3.7" "3.8" "3.9" "3.10" "3.11" "3.12" "3.13") cd zulip-terminal for VER in "${VERSIONS[@]}"; do	echo "Testing with Python $VER..."	pyenv local $VER	python3 -m venv zt_venv	source zt_venv/bin/activate	LOG="../test_pip_log_${VER}.txt"	{	echo "Testing with Python $VER.."	pip install -e '.[dev]'	} &> "$LOG"	deactivate	rm -rf zt_venv done cd .. 

test-script-make.sh

#!/bin/bash VERSIONS=("3.6" "3.7" "3.8" "3.9" "3.10" "3.11" "3.12" "3.13") cd zulip-terminal for VER in "${VERSIONS[@]}"; do	echo "Testing with Python $VER..."	pyenv local $VER	LOG="../test_make_log_${VER}.txt"	{	echo "Testing with Python $VER.."	make	source zt_venv/bin/activate	} &> "$LOG"	deactivate	rm -rf zt_venv done cd .. 

Proposed Change:

I recommend updating the documentation to explicitly mention which Python versions are supported or to clarify that Python 3.8 to 3.11 is required, as others may not work as expected.
This will help avoid confusion for users who are trying to follow the instructions.