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Cclauss changed the title Python version for MAC catalina Python version for macOS Catalina May 11, 2021. Cclauss added the macOS label May 11, 2021. The older Python language, version 2.7, is being deprecated in macOS 10.15 Catalina and won't be included in macOS 10.16. The same goes for other UNIX scripting languages. How to setup python environment on macOS. On this page I describe how to setup python environment on macOS Catalina (10.13). When I upgrade to a next major version of macOS it's almost always some problems appear - some tools stop working, eapecially if you use your system for software development. I am experiencing a Python menu issue on both of my Mac's. One Mac has macOS Catalina and Python 3.7.4 via pyEnv with Tcl/Tk 8.6.9 and the other has macOS Catalina and Python 3.8.0. Via pyEnv and Tcl/Tk 8.6.9 and both area exhibiting the same behavior. This behavior did not exist before upgrading from macOS Mojave to macOS Catalina.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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:

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

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