Asmi Ariv added the comment:
Thanks a lot for your reply! Much appreciated!
Regards
Asmi Ariv
Data Science & Business Analytics Expert
On Wed, 27 May, 2020, 8:42 am Ned Deily, wrote:
>
> Ned Deily added the comment:
>
> Thanks for your report. Because of very low usage and the increasing
> difficulty of supporting new features and bug fixes on very old versions of
> macOS, like 10.6.x, we no longer provide binary installers on python.org
> for macOS versions earlier than 10.9. On top of that, there was a specific
> problem with using the last several 10.6+ installers on 10.6 itself, due to
> changes in Apple packaging tools. This is the problem you are seeing and
> was first reported and tracked in Issue36890. As noted there, there is a
> link to a 3.7.4 installer that will work on macOS 10.6. However, we do not
> recommend you use it as the most recent release of Python 3.7 is now 3.7.7
> with the final bugfix release of 3.7.x coming next month; Python 3.8.3 is
> now current.
>
> Instead, if you expect to continue using 10.6 Snow Leopard, I would
> strongly suggest you look at installing Python(s) from the MacPorts
> project. They do an excellent job of providing up-to-date versions of open
> source software, like Python, for multiple versions of macOS, including
> 10.6. They have pre-built packages of the most recent versions of python37
> and python38 for 10.6. See
> https://www.macports.org/install.php#installing for a link to their base
> package installer for 10.6. You can then install Python with:
>
> sudo port selfupdate
> sudo port install python37
> or
> sudo port install python38
>
> Many third-party Python packages have also been ported and pre-built. You
> can search for them with:
>
> sudo port search py37 # (or py38)
>
> or on their website at https://ports.macports.org
>
> Good luck!
>
> --
> nosy: +ned.deily
> resolution: -> duplicate
> stage: -> resolved
> status: open -> closed
> superseder: -> python-3.7.3-macosx10.6.pkg verification error on macOS
> 10.6 Snow Leopard
> type: compile error ->
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