How hard a requirement is the 3.10.6 version of Python?

[worthlesscog]

I have it (mostly) working on linux on 3.10.4 and although there are various complaints on the console, it does run and I can generate images and upscale just fine. It's running on a 4GB card too, with appropriate flags obviously. I can't get the face fixing bits to work though.

I'm trying to work out if the failure stack traces and console complaints are because I screwed up the manual install or because it will absolutely only work on 3.10.6 (or later presumably) and mine is stuck at 3.10.4. An upgrade to 3.10.7 would probably be messy.

Does it use features or require fixes only available in 3.10.6 forwards?

[AUTOMATIC1111]

From readme:

About "You must install this exact version" from the instructions above: you can use any version of python you like, and it will likely work, but if you want to seek help about things not working, I will not offer help unless you this exact version for my sanity.

No features from 3.10 needed. I was developing it on 3.8 for most of the time.

[ThereforeGames]

I've been running this repo on Python v3.9.7 for several days without issue. (Well, I've run into a couple issues, but I don't think it's due to the version of Python I'm using.)

[worthlesscog]

OK, I binned the install and all my pip stuff and did it again. I had to downgrade one of the pip environment setup packages to get rid of some weird version warnings about ubuntu versioned packages. Other folks moaning about it on the web so not unique to me. Known bug. Did that before reinstalling everything else.

I'm fairly sure it's working now although I've only tried CodeFormer not GPFGAN. If I pin the seed and regenerate, toggling the face fix tick box, I get different faces. It doesn't say it's fixing them on the console so I guess CodeFormer is silent.