Migration tutorial fails without python2

[mrfitz42]

The system I'm using only has python 3.9.18 installed. Running 'npm install' fails as follows:
$ npm install

npm WARN deprecated har-validator@5.1.5: this library is no longer supported
npm WARN deprecated circular-json@0.3.3: CircularJSON is in maintenance only, flatted is its successor.
npm WARN deprecated uuid@3.4.0: Please upgrade  to version 7 or higher.  Older versions may use Math.random() in certain circumstances, which is known to be problematic.  See https://v8.dev/blog/math-random for details.
npm WARN deprecated request@2.88.2: request has been deprecated, see https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142
npm WARN deprecated tar@3.2.3: This version of tar is no longer supported, and will not receive security updates. Please upgrade asap.
npm WARN deprecated tar@2.2.2: This version of tar is no longer supported, and will not receive security updates. Please upgrade asap.
npm WARN deprecated tar@2.2.2: This version of tar is no longer supported, and will not receive security updates. Please upgrade asap.
npm WARN deprecated tar@2.2.2: This version of tar is no longer supported, and will not receive security updates. Please upgrade asap.

> microtime@2.1.9 install
> prebuild-install || node-gyp rebuild

gyp info it worked if it ends with ok
gyp info using node-gyp@3.8.0
gyp info using node@20.11.0 | linux | x64
gyp ERR! configure error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: Command failed: /usr/bin/python -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 (node:child_process:422:12)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:518:28)
gyp ERR! stack     at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1105:16)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:305:5)
gyp ERR! System Linux 5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3.x86_64
gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/nodejs/node-v20.11/bin/node" ".../node-microtime/node_modules/.bin/node-gyp" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd .../node-microtime
gyp ERR! node -v v20.11.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0
gyp ERR! not ok 
npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path .../node-microtime
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command sh -c prebuild-install || node-gyp rebuild

The issue seems to be that node-gyp@3.8.0 ends up in package-lock.json, which issues the python print statement without parentheses.

Is there a way around this without installing python2? Thanks.