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As a popular open source development project, Python has an activesupporting community of contributors and users that also make their softwareavailable for other Python developers to use under open source license terms.

If you are using a Python from any current python.org Python installer for macOS (3.9.0+, 3.8.0+, or 3.7.2+), no further action is needed to use IDLE or tkinter. A built-in version of Tcl/Tk 8.6 will be used. If you are using macOS 10.6 or later, the Apple-supplied Tcl/Tk 8.5 has serious bugs that can cause application crashes. By default MacOS ships with Python-2. But, I guess most of us have long back started to work with Python-3 and it is very irritating to run python3 every time instead of python in terminal.

This allows Python users to share and collaborate effectively, benefitingfrom the solutions others have already created to common (and sometimeseven rare!) problems, as well as potentially contributing their ownsolutions to the common pool.

This guide covers the installation part of the process. For a guide tocreating and sharing your own Python projects, refer to thedistribution guide.

Note

For corporate and other institutional users, be aware that manyorganisations have their own policies around using and contributing toopen source software. Please take such policies into account when makinguse of the distribution and installation tools provided with Python.

Key terms¶

• pip is the preferred installer program. Starting with Python 3.4, itis included by default with the Python binary installers.

• A virtual environment is a semi-isolated Python environment that allowspackages to be installed for use by a particular application, rather thanbeing installed system wide.

• venv is the standard tool for creating virtual environments, and hasbeen part of Python since Python 3.3. Starting with Python 3.4, itdefaults to installing pip into all created virtual environments.

• virtualenv is a third party alternative (and predecessor) tovenv. It allows virtual environments to be used on versions ofPython prior to 3.4, which either don’t provide venv at all, oraren’t able to automatically install pip into created environments.

• The Python Packaging Index is a publicrepository of open source licensed packages made available for use byother Python users.

• the Python Packaging Authority is the group ofdevelopers and documentation authors responsible for the maintenance andevolution of the standard packaging tools and the associated metadata andfile format standards. They maintain a variety of tools, documentation,and issue trackers on both GitHub andBitbucket.

• distutils is the original build and distribution system first added tothe Python standard library in 1998. While direct use of distutils isbeing phased out, it still laid the foundation for the current packagingand distribution infrastructure, and it not only remains part of thestandard library, but its name lives on in other ways (such as the nameof the mailing list used to coordinate Python packaging standardsdevelopment).

Changed in version 3.5: The use of venv is now recommended for creating virtual environments.

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Basic usage¶

The standard packaging tools are all designed to be used from the commandline.

The following command will install the latest version of a module and itsdependencies from the Python Packaging Index:

Note

For POSIX users (including Mac OS X and Linux users), the examples inthis guide assume the use of a virtual environment.

For Windows users, the examples in this guide assume that the option toadjust the system PATH environment variable was selected when installingPython.

It’s also possible to specify an exact or minimum version directly on thecommand line. When using comparator operators such as >, < or some otherspecial character which get interpreted by shell, the package name and theversion should be enclosed within double quotes:

Normally, if a suitable module is already installed, attempting to installit again will have no effect. Upgrading existing modules must be requestedexplicitly:

More information and resources regarding pip and its capabilities can befound in the Python Packaging User Guide.

Creation of virtual environments is done through the venv module.Installing packages into an active virtual environment uses the commands shownabove.

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How do I …?¶

These are quick answers or links for some common tasks.

… install pip in versions of Python prior to Python 3.4?¶

Python only started bundling pip with Python 3.4. For earlier versions,pip needs to be “bootstrapped” as described in the Python PackagingUser Guide.

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… install packages just for the current user?¶

Passing the --user option to python-mpipinstall will install apackage just for the current user, rather than for all users of the system.

… install scientific Python packages?¶

A number of scientific Python packages have complex binary dependencies, andaren’t currently easy to install using pip directly. At this point intime, it will often be easier for users to install these packages byother meansrather than attempting to install them with pip.

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… work with multiple versions of Python installed in parallel?¶

On Linux, Mac OS X, and other POSIX systems, use the versioned Python commandsin combination with the -m switch to run the appropriate copy ofpip:

Appropriately versioned pip commands may also be available.

On Windows, use the py Python launcher in combination with the -mswitch:

Common installation issues¶

Installing into the system Python on Linux¶

On Linux systems, a Python installation will typically be included as partof the distribution. Installing into this Python installation requiresroot access to the system, and may interfere with the operation of thesystem package manager and other components of the system if a componentis unexpectedly upgraded using pip.

On such systems, it is often better to use a virtual environment or aper-user installation when installing packages with pip.

Pip not installed¶

It is possible that pip does not get installed by default. One potential fix is:

There are also additional resources for installing pip.

Installing binary extensions¶

Python has typically relied heavily on source based distribution, with endusers being expected to compile extension modules from source as part ofthe installation process.

With the introduction of support for the binary wheel format, and theability to publish wheels for at least Windows and Mac OS X through thePython Packaging Index, this problem is expected to diminish over time,as users are more regularly able to install pre-built extensions ratherthan needing to build them themselves.

Some of the solutions for installing scientific softwarethat are not yet available as pre-built wheel files may also help withobtaining other binary extensions without needing to build them locally.

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Check out the steps below to install Python 3 on Mac OSX.

How to download Python3

You can download Python 3 by downloading from official Python website or using Homebrew package manager for macOS .

Python Official Site

1) Open up Python official download site. It looks something like the image below. Press Download Python 3.7.4 or the version you would like to download.

2) After downloading the installer, open it to install Python 3.

Python 3.7.4 installer Read Me contains the following note about Python 3 and Python 2 Co-existence. Thus, to run Python 3, you can run Python3 or Python3.X.X (a specific version that you installed on your machine). To run Python 2, you can run Python or Python2.7.

3) Remove Python installer when you are done installing

4) Run python3 --version to check if Python 3 is installed.

If you install Python 3.7.X, you can also check its version using this command:

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Homebrew

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Another way to install Python 3 on Mac OS is using Homebrew package manager.

1) If you don’t have Homebrew install, you can install Homebrew by following the steps on Homebrew site. You can also use the following command to install Homebrew by copy and pasting it onto your terminal.

2) To install the latest version of Python 3, run the command below.

If you already have the latest Python installed, you will see something like the message below.

3) Run python3 --version to check if Python 3 is installed.

If you install Python 3.7.X, you can also check its version using this command:

Python 3 Shell

To open Python 3 shell from terminal, you can run Python 3.

To close Python shell, you can type in exit(). The hotkeys to close it is to press Ctrl and D simultaneously.
Note that Command and D splits your Python shell view.

Note that you can still access Python 2 by running python command.

Python 3 Package Manager Pip3

Python 3 comes with its own package manager pip3. You can check out Python Package Index to look for packages that you need.

To install a package using pip, you can run pip3 install package_name.

Switch between Python 3 Versions

Python Official Site

The easier way is to download multiple versions from Python official website and run Python command with a version appeneded such as python3.7 and python3.6.

Homebrew

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If you have previous versions of Python installed, you can run the following commands to check what versions you have and switch the version you need.

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