Prerequisites for installing Python3 on Mac
There are now newer security-fix releases of Python 3.6 that supersede 3.6.0 and Python 3.8 is now the latest feature release of Python 3.Get the latest releases of 3.6.x and 3.8.x here.Python 3.6.8 is planned to be the last bugfix release for 3.6.x. Following the release of 3.6.8, we plan to provide security fixes for Python 3.6 as needed through 2021, five years following its initial. Go to this site and download Python 3.6. This will load python and many of the packages you may need to use to program in python. You also get the anaconda-navigator which is a nice package manager. Anaconda also makes it simple to use virtual environments.
Install Xcode
Here are the checksums for latest downloads. Pypy3.6-7.3.2 sha256: 164d6a0503c83dd328e1a6bf7fcb2b2e977c1d27c6fcc491a7174fd37bc32a12 pypy3.6-v7.3.2-aarch64. However, the issue is most modern macOS versions come with rather with Python 2.7.x installed and not the newer, modern version like Python 3.6.5 or Python 3.7.2 (which is the most up-to-date version right now). This short guide is written to show you how to properly install Python 3 on a Mac OS X computer. Download the installer by clicking the download button for Python 3.6 version. (Takes about 30 minutes depending on your internet speed) Once download is complete. Locate installer either by Going to your 'file explorer' (the folder icon in the taskbar). Then navigate to your 'Downloads' folder.
Xcode is Apple's Integrated Development Environment (IDE). You might already have Xcode on your Mac. If not, you can get Xcode from Apple appstore.
Install Brew
Homebrew installs the stuff you need. Homebrew is a package manager for Mac OS
Step 1. Launch Terminal.
Go to Launchpad – Other – Terminal
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Step 2. Install HomeBrew
Install Python3 with Brew
Enter brew command into terminal
brew install python3
Optional, PATH environment
Set up PATH environment variable, if you used HomeBrew to install Python3, then HomeBrew already added PATH.
Do not change PATH environment if you can launch python3 from terminal.
Add the following line to your ~/.profile file
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:$PATH
Usually your Python installation directory looks like this, add it to your PATH
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PATH='/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/bin:${PATH}'