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All my posts about Python

Upgrade Python on macOS Big Sur using pyenv. Install Python 3.9.1 and update pip for smoother management.

Managing Python on macOS Big Sur

When Apple releases a new version of macOS it always takes a few months for everything to catchup, following my last blog post where I mentioned that I was having problems installing Python on macOS Big Sur↗ which meant that my preferred method of installing and managing Python using pyenv, which is documented in this blog post↗ , didn’t work out of the box — and the workarounds suggested workarounds on GitHub made my shell really slow. ...

Upgrade to Python 3 on macOS using pyenv for easy installation and maintenance of different Python versions.

Upgrade Python on MacOS

The latest major version of Python 2 was originally release on 03/07/2010 and on 01/01/2020 Python 2 will be no more; We have decided that January 1, 2020, will be the day that we sunset Python 2. That means that we will not improve it anymore after that day, even if someone finds a security problem in it. You should upgrade to Python 3 as soon as you can. Interestingly the latest version of macOS still ships with Python 2.7 as its default Python interpreter, however that won’t be for much longer as Apple are removing all Scripting Language Runtimes from future releases of macOS; ...