Windows setup issue, python not found

[shrkamat]

I have python installed on Windows, along with quarto 1.5.56. Both are added to PATH.

(.venv) C:\Users\skamath\mwiki>python --version
Python 3.10.11

(.venv) C:\Users\skamath\mwiki>quarto --version
1.5.56

(.venv) C:\Users\skamath\mwiki>quarto check all
Quarto 1.5.56
[>] Checking versions of quarto binary dependencies...
      Pandoc version 3.2.0: OK
      Dart Sass version 1.70.0: OK
      Deno version 1.41.0: OK
      Typst version 0.11.0: OK
[>] Checking versions of quarto dependencies......OK
[>] Checking Quarto installation......OK
      Version: 1.5.56
      Path: C:\Users\skamath\mwiki\.venv\lib\site-packages\quarto_cli\bin
      CodePage: 1252

[>] Checking tools....................OK
      TinyTeX: (not installed)
      Chromium: (not installed)

[>] Checking LaTeX....................OK
      Tex:  (not detected)

[>] Checking basic markdown render....OK

[>] Checking Python 3 installation....(None)

      Unable to locate an installed version of Python 3.
      Install Python 3 from https://www.python.org/downloads/

[>] Checking R installation...........(None)

      Unable to locate an installed version of R.
      Install R from https://cloud.r-project.org/

I see render failing (I have installed matplotlib, jupyter, numpy with in my venv)

(.venv) C:\Users\skamath\mwiki>jupyter --version
Selected Jupyter core packages...
IPython          : 8.26.0
ipykernel        : 6.29.5
ipywidgets       : 8.1.3
jupyter_client   : 8.6.2
jupyter_core     : 5.7.2
jupyter_server   : 2.14.2
jupyterlab       : 4.2.4
nbclient         : 0.10.0
nbconvert        : 7.16.4
nbformat         : 5.10.4
notebook         : 7.2.1
qtconsole        : 5.5.2
traitlets        : 5.14.3

(.venv) C:\Users\skamath\mwiki>quarto render index.qmd
ERROR: Jupyter kernel 'python' not found. Known kernels: python3. Run 'quarto check jupyter' with your python environment activated to check python version used.

Stack trace:
    at jupyterKernelspecFromMarkdown (file:///C:/Users/skamath/mwiki/.venv/lib/site-packages/quarto_cli/bin/quarto.js:32194:35)
    at eventLoopTick (ext:core/01_core.js:153:7)
    at async quartoMdToJupyter (file:///C:/Users/skamath/mwiki/.venv/lib/site-packages/quarto_cli/bin/quarto.js:32022:36)
    at async createNotebookforTarget (file:///C:/Users/skamath/mwiki/.venv/lib/site-packages/quarto_cli/bin/quarto.js:40775:16)
    at async Object.target (file:///C:/Users/skamath/mwiki/.venv/lib/site-packages/quarto_cli/bin/quarto.js:40460:18)
    at async fileExecutionEngineAndTarget (file:///C:/Users/skamath/mwiki/.venv/lib/site-packages/quarto_cli/bin/quarto.js:41863:20)
    at async render (file:///C:/Users/skamath/mwiki/.venv/lib/site-packages/quarto_cli/bin/quarto.js:82934:24)
    at async Command.actionHandler (file:///C:/Users/skamath/mwiki/.venv/lib/site-packages/quarto_cli/bin/quarto.js:83077:32)
    at async Command.execute (file:///C:/Users/skamath/mwiki/.venv/lib/site-packages/quarto_cli/bin/quarto.js:8017:13)
    at async Command.parseCommand (file:///C:/Users/skamath/mwiki/.venv/lib/site-packages/quarto_cli/bin/quarto.js:7907:20)

[cscheid]

I'm going to redirect this to a Q&A at quarto-cli, the right place for this.