Installation guide suggests Python 3.8, but fails due to ipython>=8.18.0 requiring Python ≥3.9

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Description

The installation instructions in the README suggest using:

conda create -n manim python=3.8
conda activate manim
pip install -e .

However, installing with Python 3.8 fails with the following error:

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement ipython>=8.18.0
ERROR: No matching distribution found for ipython>=8.18.0

The root cause is that ipython>=8.18.0 requires Python ≥3.9.
Therefore, the environment should be created with Python 3.9 or higher.

Proposed fix

Update the installation section to:

conda create -n manim python=3.9
conda activate manim
pip install -e .

Environment

• macOS (or Linux)
• Python 3.8 (fails)
• manimgl==1.7.2
• pip 24.x