Wouldn't that launch the python 2.7.x version that ships with macOS? That version is old and will likely be replaced with python 3.8.x in macOS versions after Catalina.Easier. Launch terminal > prompt > python.
And, if you're just learning Python, I recommend going with the Python 3.8.x distribution because it will be easier to start with Python 3 than learning the syntax changes from Python 2 to Python 3. If I'm reading the signs correctly, macOS versions after Catalina will ship with Python 3.8.If you’re learning Python, look at Anaconda and the Jupyter platform.
Platform | Anaconda
Anaconda is the birthplace of Python data science. We are a movement of data scientists, data-driven enterprises, and open source communities.www.anaconda.comProject Jupyter
The Jupyter Notebook is a web-based interactive computing platform. The notebook combines live code, equations, narrative text, visualizations, interactive dashboards and other media.jupyter.org
Im pretty sure Jupyter comes as part of the default conda distribution, but it’s easy enough to install separately if you need to.
Anaconda currently offers 3.7, which I think is probably fine. I’m sure you can update it to 3.8 manually, but the differences are probably minimal to a new learner...And, if you're just learning Python, I recommend going with the Python 3.8.x distribution because it will be easier to start with Python 3 than learning the syntax changes from Python 2 to Python 3. If I'm reading the signs correctly, macOS versions after Catalina will ship with Python 3.8.
From the Catalina release notes, future versions of macOS won’t include scripting language runtimes by default, so unless they happen to be using one for some reason, you will need to install it yourself.If I'm reading the signs correctly, macOS versions after Catalina will ship with Python 3.8.
Ah, that is good to know, thank you very much. So, we may need to install Python 3 manually in macOS 10.16. From what I've seen with the Python website over the years.. this shouldn't be difficult at all.From the Catalina release notes, future versions of macOS won’t include scripting language runtimes by default, so unless they happen to be using one for some reason, you will need to install it yourself.
That makes sense. On Catalina you can run the command
python3
and it will launch xcode-select
. I wonder why Apple included both of these executables instead of symlinking one to the other. There is no man page for python3
, so I'm kinda confused.