PYTHON is required on package.json include

[iGoodie]

Problem and How to Reproduce?

First of all I have Python 3.7.2 installed and PYTHON variable set (mapped to python.exe) on my environment

I include "fast-ratelimit": "^2.2.0" as a dependency in my package.json

Then execute npm install command. However it cannot install correctly, printing these;

gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: Command failed: C:\Program Files\python\python.exe -c import sys; print "%s.%s.%s" % sys.version_info[:3];
gyp ERR! stack   File "<string>", line 1
gyp ERR! stack     import sys; print "%s.%s.%s" % sys.version_info[:3];
gyp ERR! stack                                ^
gyp ERR! stack SyntaxError: invalid syntax
gyp ERR! stack
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:294:12)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:182:13)
gyp ERR! stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:962:16)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:251:5)
gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 10.0.17763
gyp ERR! command "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\node_modules\\node-gyp\\bin\\node-gyp.js" "configure" "build"
gyp ERR! cwd D:\Visual Studio Code Workspace\workspace-commissions\exponent-socket-server\node_modules\hashtable-patch-valeriansaliou
gyp ERR! node -v v10.15.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0
gyp ERR! not ok
npm WARN exponent-socket-server@1.0.0 No description
npm WARN exponent-socket-server@1.0.0 No repository field.
npm WARN exponent-socket-server@1.0.0 No license field.

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! hashtable-patch-valeriansaliou@2.1.5 install: `node-gyp configure build`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the hashtable-patch-valeriansaliou@2.1.5 install script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\xgen_\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2019-02-18T14_36_11_427Z-debug.log

[iGoodie]

It turned out to be a problem with node-gyp requiring python 2 instead of python 3.

npm i windows-build-tools -g solved my problem