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Python 3.8 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3.Get the latest release of 3.8.x here.Python 3.7.8 was the last bugfix release for 3.7. Python 3.7 is now in the security fix phase of its life cycle. Only security-related issues are accepted and addressed during this phase. Installing Python 3 on Mac OS X. The version of Python that ships with OS X is great for learning, but it’s not good for development. The version shipped with OS X may be out of date from the official current Python release, which is considered the stable production version. Python is a popular programming language that is widely used by both beginners and professional developers. Modern versions of Mac OS support Python 2.7.x (or Python 2.6.1 in older versions), but many users need to upgrade to Python 3.6 or 3.7. Today I will explain how to install the Python 3 update on a Mac in two different ways.

It’s easy to install multiple versions of python on a Mac computer using installers from python.org, Homebrew, Conda, or other sources. This could create conflicts if a user wants to run one version of python but bash calls a different version instead.

This is guide will show you how to:

modify your bash profile to change which version of python is called by bash first.
use virtual environments to specify a version of python that will run a project.
uninstall specific versions of python.

Mac OS needs python

DO NOT remove any versions of Python found in the following folders:

/usr/bin
system/Library

These versions of Python—which should be Python 2.7—are installed by Apple and used by Mac OS and other software to perform some functions. Deleting Python from these directories will break Mac OS and force you to reinstall it on your computer.

Other projects may need specific versions of python

You may have a python project or you may use python packages that require particular versions of Python. Uninstalling those versions would prevent those projects or packages from working until that version of python is reinstalled. For example, Python 3 is a dependency of Numpy; if you uninstalled Python 3, then Numpy wouldn’t work until you reinstalled Python 3.

Three common methods of installing python can be found here:

python.org

The python.org (python.org) installer can be found here.

Homebrew

First install Homebrew. The instructions are here, or enter the following command:

To install Python 3:

To install Python 2:

Anaconda

Anaconda is generally used for scientific and machine learning applications.

For Ananconda follow installation instructions here.

Miniconda is a stripped down version of Anaconda.

For Miniconda follow installation instructions here.

PATH

The path is a list of directories that your shell will look through when you execute a command. You can display the path on your computer using the echo $PATH command:

The directories above are separated by a colon, this is what they look like displayed in sequence:

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/bin
/Users/username/anaconda3/bin
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin
/Users/username/miniconda2/bin
/Users/username/miniconda3/bin
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/bin
/usr/local/bin
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin
/usr/texbin
/opt/X11/bin
/usr/X11/bin
/usr/local/git/bin

When you ask your shell to run a particular command or run an interpreter, python for example, the shell looks through the different directories listed in the PATH in order they’re presented above. When the shell finds that command, it stops and calls it even if there is another version of the same command, with the same name, further down in the list.

.bash_profile

The bash profile is a set of instructions that are run by the shell when the user logs in to bash. You can add a variety of preferences to the bash profile, including modifications to the PATH. When anaconda, miniconda or other versions of python are installed they automatically add paths to their respective versions of python to the top of the bash profile.

Bash reads the bash profile in sequential order — from top to bottom — and adds those paths to the PATH in the order that they’re read. This means that the last path at the bottom of the bash profile will end up as the first path in the PATH. This means that if you have Python 3.6 installed on your computer, and then decide to add python 3.7, but keep 3.6, the installer will add Python 3.7 to the top of the bash profile but it will end up after python 3.6 in the PATH. Entering python3 in bash will call python 3.6, not 3.7.

If that was confusing compare the order that the python paths are added to my bash profile below to the PATH listed above. You’ll notice that their respective orders are opposite from each other.

Enter the following command to open the bash profile in TextEdit:

My .bash_profile currently looks like this:

If you want to keep all of your installed versions of python, but want bash to open a different version first, just copy and paste it to the bottom of the bash profile. If you don’t want bash to run a particular version of python then delete it from bash profile and uninstall that version by following the instructions further down.

Don’t forget to save the bash profile before closing TextEdit. You also have to reload the bash profile in bash before any changes take effect. Just enter one of the following commands:

source ~/.bash_profile
. ~/.bash_profile

Pyenv is a Homebrew package that allows a user to install multiple versions of python in Homebrew and specify which version of python they’d like to run.

Install pyenv:

Install different versions of python:

Show which versions of python are installed:

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The asterisk indicates that the system version of python is active, but 3.5.0 and 3.6.0 are also installed.

Pyenv Local

Create a folder called PythonLocalProject, then display the version of python called by bash by entering python -V:

Now enter:

This creates a .python-version file which tells pyenv which version of python to run in that directory.

Entering ls -la shows us that file:

Now enter pyenv versions:

And running this command shows which version of python is called by pyenv:

To change pyenv to the system version of version 3.6.0 enter:

This procedure is fine, you can set a version of python to run in a particular folder. But what if you want to use pyenv to set a global version of python.

Pyenv Global

Pyenv gives these instructions when you enter pyenv init in bash:

Open the bash profile:

open ~/.bash_profile

Add this text to the bottom of the file:

eval '$(pyenv init -)'

Save the file and then enter:

source ~/.bash_profile

Entering echo $PATH will show that a pyenv shim has been added to the beginnning of the path:

/Users/username/.pyenv/shims:

And which python will return:

/Users/username/.pyenv/shims/python

This means that bash will run the version of python set by pyenv.

Navigate to a folder that doesn’t have a .python-version file and enter:

This shows us that the global version of python is 3.6.0 and it is set by pyenv.

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