> On 5 Jan 2020, at 22:41, Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas > <python-ideas@python.org> wrote: > > On Jan 5, 2020, at 00:17, James Lu <jam...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> I use macOS, and using Python is very confusing. >> >> - Apple's bundled Python 2.7. > > Apple has made a mess of things, but they’ve actually fixed that mess in > 10.15—they now give you 3.7 and 2.7, and neither one is broken or weird.
Do they? The only python3 I’ve found is part of Xcode with a stub executable in /usr/bin (just like with clang). I wouldn’t rely on the bundled installation of Python for anything important. > > That being said, I don’t think anyone trusts them to not to change their > minds again and leave everything without updates for half a decade to the > point where their pre-installed Python is more of a nuisance than helpful. So > everyone is still using Homebrew or Anaconda, and you probably should as well. Or the python installer on python.org :-) Ronald _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/DGEJQSZIUENGMTIDBBBQ3KXURZHVM6NG/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
