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----
-name: "Setup Python 2.7"
-description: "This action will setup Python 2.7."
-
-runs:
-  using: "composite"
-  steps:
-    - name: Windows Install
-      shell: bash
-      if: ${{ runner.os == 'Windows' }}
-      run: |
-        choco install python2 --version=2.7.18 -y --no-progress
-
-    - name: Linux Install
-      shell: bash
-      if: ${{ runner.os == 'Linux' }}
-      run: |
-        # get the version from /etc/os-release
-        version=$(grep -oP '(?<=VERSION_ID=")\d+' /etc/os-release)
-        echo "Ubuntu version: $version"
-
-        sudo apt-get update
-
-        if [[ $version == 20 ]]; then
-          sudo apt-get install python2.7 -y
-        elif [[ $version == 22 ]]; then
-          sudo apt-get install python2 python-pip -y
-        fi
-
-    - name: macOS Install
-      shell: bash
-      if: ${{ runner.os == 'macOS' }}
-      run: |
-        python_version=$(python --version 2>&1)
-        echo "Python version: ${python_version}"
-
-        if [[ "${python_version}" == *"Python 2.7"* ]]; then
-          echo "${python_version} already installed, nothing to do"
-        else
-          echo "Python 2.7 not installed"
-          exit 1
-        fi
-
-    - name: Setup Python Environment
-      shell: bash
-      run: |
-        echo "Current system Python Version:"
-        python --version
-
-        echo "Setting paths"
-        if [[ "${{ runner.os }}" == "Windows" ]]; then
-          export PATH="/c/Python27:/c/Python27/Scripts:$PATH"
-          echo "moving GitHub installed Python version"
-          mv "/c/hostedtoolcache/windows/Python/3.9.13" "/c/hostedtoolcache/windows/Python/3.9.13-backup"
-
-          # set venv path
-          venv_base_path="/c/tmp/python27/venv"
-          venv_base_path_windows="C:\\tmp\\python27\\venv"
-          venv_dir="Scripts"
-        elif [[ "${{ runner.os }}" == "Linux" ]]; then
-          sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/bin/python2.7 1
-          venv_base_path="/tmp/python27/venv"
-          venv_dir="bin"
-        elif [[ "${{ runner.os }}" == "macOS" ]]; then
-          venv_base_path="/tmp/python27/venv"
-          venv_dir="bin"
-        fi
-
-        echo "New Python version:"
-        python --version
-
-        echo "Bootstrapping pip"
-        curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/2.7/get-pip.py --output get-pip.py
-        python get-pip.py
-        rm -f get-pip.py
-
-        echo "Installing virtualenv"
-        python -m pip install virtualenv
-
-        # create venv
-        python -m virtualenv ${venv_base_path}
-
-        # activate venv
-        source ${venv_base_path}/${venv_dir}/activate
-
-        # update
-        python -m pip --no-python-version-warning --disable-pip-version-check install --upgrade pip setuptools
-
-        # update the path environment, so the next steps can use the venv
-        # required to use the shell
-        if [[ "${{ runner.os }}" == "Windows" ]]; then
-            echo "${venv_base_path_windows}\\${venv_dir}" >> $GITHUB_PATH
-        else
-            echo "${venv_base_path}/${venv_dir}" >> $GITHUB_PATH
-        fi
-
-        # show python version
-        echo "Python venv version:"
-        python --version