[issue29076] Python 3.6 installer doesn't update "python3" shell command

Ned Deily added the comment: Ah! If you have made "fish" your default shell, the updater script should fail with the message "Sorry, I don't know how to patch ... shells". Perhaps your default shell was still bash back when you previously installed Python 3.5 and 2.7? If so, then the issue

[issue29076] Python 3.6 installer doesn't update "python3" shell command

Ned Deily added the comment: OK, that shouldn't be an issue. I'm just guessing at this point since nothing has changed in the profile updater script in a long time over many releases. I'm assuming you are running the installer under the same user name (Elias) and that Elias is an admin

[issue29076] Python 3.6 installer doesn't update "python3" shell command

Elias Zamaria added the comment: I just ran "ls -le ~/.bash_profile" and got this result: -rw-r--r--+ 1 Elias staff 1057 Jul 2 11:04 /Users/Elias/.bash_profile 0: user:_spotlight inherited allow read,execute,readattr,readextattr,readsecurity --

[issue29076] Python 3.6 installer doesn't update "python3" shell command

Ned Deily added the comment: Thanks for the info. The '+' is the ls output indicates there is extended security information for .bash_profile, probably an access control list entry that affects it. I suspect that might be the reason that .bash_profile does not get updated by the installer

[issue29076] Python 3.6 installer doesn't update "python3" shell command

Elias Zamaria added the comment: I just ran "ls -l ~/.bash_profile" and got the following output: -rw-r--r--+ 1 Elias staff 1057 Jul 2 11:04 /Users/Elias/.bash_profile -- ___ Python tracker

[issue29076] Python 3.6 installer doesn't update "python3" shell command

Ned Deily added the comment: Can you check what the permissions and ownership are on your existing .bash_profile file? Also, as you suspected, the installer's profile updater script does not currently look for fish initialization files. -- ___

[issue29076] Python 3.6 installer doesn't update "python3" shell command

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[issue29076] Python 3.6 installer doesn't update "python3" shell command

New submission from Elias Zamaria: I have a Mac running OS X 10.11.6, Python 3.5.2, and fish 2.3.1. I installed Python 3.6.0, and everything seemed to work fine. However, I typed "python3" in my shell and it started Python 3.5.2. I restarted my shell and typed "python3", and it still started

[issue29076] Python 3.6 installer doesn't update "python3" shell command

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