Guido remains Python’s principal author, although it includes many contributions from others. Python was created in the early 1990s by Guido van Rossum at Stichting Mathematisch Centrum (CWI, see ) in the Netherlands as a successor of a language called ABC. A new panel will appear with an interesting recap on the history of Python and its governance: Go to, choose the Downloads menu, hover “Mac OS X” and a panel with a link to download the official package will appear: One option is to use Homebrew to install the latest Python release.Īnother option is to use the official Python packages and that’s the approach we’ll follow. In my case I had Python 3.8, but Python 3.9 was available to be installed. However you have little control over the version number you run, as Apple updates it only with new Xcode releases. Python 3 is the one we’re going to use for modern Python development. In this case you can run python3 on your terminal to check the exact version installed, and if it’s recent enough you might be already set up. If you install Xcode, the Apple Development IDE, it installs Python 3 in /usr/bin/python3. MacOS installs Python 2 (outdated) by default, for compatibility reasons, making it available as /usr/bin/python. Yes, you can trust the old references, as written! That guidance is still valid.A how-to guide on installing the latest version of Python on your Mac All done.Īt no time did I touch the python installation located within the /System folder. Reinstall python and python3 via homebrew. So, brew prune (or brew cleanup -prune in newer versions of Homebrew) worked perfectly.

I initially renamed the ones that were obviously going to cause me trouble. which python3 -> /usr/local/bin/python3 Delete the entire python3 directory.which python -> /Library/Frameworks/amework/Versions/2.7/bin/pythonĭelete the entire amework directory from /Library/Frameworks.So, I ended up removing all python installations, and reinstalling things via Homebrew.

Brew install python3