Google Cloud SDk: Python was not found

Question

After I install Google cloud sdk in my computer, I open the terminal and type "gcloud --version" but it says "python was not found"

note: I unchecked the box saying "Install python bundle" when I install Google cloud sdk because I already have python 3.10.2 installed.

so, how do fix this?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

On Windows, setting the CLOUDSDK_PYTHON environment variable fixes this, but when I first tried this I pointed the variable to the folder containing the python executable and that didn't work. The variable apparently must point to the executable file.