Pito Salas <pitosa...@brandeis.edu> writes: > I’m new to Python. I seem to have three partially installed Pythons on my Mac > Sierra. > > One from Apple > One from Homebrew > And one from the Python Mac installer > > In particular, for example, I have a python executable in /usr/bin: > > $ which python > /usr/bin/python > > This is an actual executable not a symkink. There are a whole bunch of > python related files in that directory: > > python python-config python2.6 python2.6-config python2.7 > python2.7-config pythonw pythonw2.6 pythonw2.7 > Normally you should never touch anything in /usr/bin or /usr/lib. That is Apple territory. > > I think they all came from the python.org python installer.
If it is in /usr/bin, it shouldn't. > > I would like to fully uninstall the Python (and related files) that I > got from the Mac Python Installer from the python web site. I can’t find > up to date instructions. > > Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks! > Delete /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/ and all links in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib that point towards something inside that directory. On the other hand, I find it very useful to have a Python from python.org installed as they are usually more up to date than the Apple supplied one. If you tell the installer to install the links in /usr/local, and put /usr/local/bin in your PATH before /usr/bin, you will use these, and Apple will still use their own version. -- Piet van Oostrum <pie...@vanoostrum.org> WWW: http://piet.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/Pythonmac-SIG
