How To Update Python Mac

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This post has been updated on How to Update Python 3.6 to Python 3.8 on Mac OS. This post will be removed end of this month. 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) Use the download installer to install. To update macOS from the command line, first launch Terminal, which can be found in the Applications/Utilities folder. This will open a Terminal window and a command prompt for you to begin typing.

Maria Campbell provides a post on installing the latest version of Python on Mac OS Catalina and overriding the old default pre-installed version. And it even uses Homebrew and not some gnarly steps.

I finally did it. I successfully installed Python version 3.7.7 via Homebrew on my Maclaptop with OS Catalinainstalled.

For those of you that still might be trying to figure out how to do this, I will walk you through.

The reason why I was eager to make sure that I had the latest version installed was because I am working on publishing (open-source) teaching-related documentation on Read The Docs, and I need to have Python installed in order to be able to install the programs necessary to publish there.

The default 2.7.17 version of Python was retired this past January 2020. I had tried back then to replace it with Python 3+, but was unsuccessful at the time.

They key appears to be also adding the following at the bottom of the .zshrc file to update the path to the newly installed version of Python via Homebrew:

See all the steps in the blog post here and podcast here.

Learn how to upgrade Python 3.6 to Python 3.7 or 3.8 on Mac OS.

Python Official Site

How To Update Python Version On Mac

1) Open up Python official download site. It looks something like the image below. Press Download Python 3.7.4(release date was July 8, 2019) or Download Python 3.8.0(release date was Oct. 14, 2019) or the version you would like to download.

2) Use the download installer to install Python 3.7. You can refer to How to Install Python3 article for more information.

How To Update Python Mac

Homebrew

If you use Homebrew, you can run brew install command to update Python to Python 3.7

Verification

After you install, python3 command will point to Python 3.7. You can verify by using commands below.

You can use which command to find out the location of Python 3.7

Note

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