Troubling installing Python 3 on my iMac

James

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Apr 30, 2019, 8:40:42 AM4/30/19

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I downloaded the file from the python website and went through the entire installation process... accepting all of the default values. However, when I went to my Terminal window and typed python, it still shows the older version:

Python 2.7.10 (default, Feb 22 2019, 21:17:52)

[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 10.0.1 (clang-1001.0.37.14)] on darwin

What did I do wrong? I need to get this all setup before I can start the Django tutorial.

Thank you!

Aditya Singh

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Apr 30, 2019, 8:42:13 AM4/30/19

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Kindly type python3 in the terminal and let me know the output :)

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Suresh Kannan

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Apr 30, 2019, 9:36:30 AM4/30/19

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Hi,

Try these steps

https://wsvincent.com/install-python3-mac/

https://stackoverflow.com/a/20868669/4037275

James

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Apr 30, 2019, 3:02:01 PM4/30/19

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Thanks Suresh! This did the trick.

On Tuesday, April 30, 2019 at 7:36:30 AM UTC-6, Suresh Kannan wrote:

Hi,

Try these steps

https://wsvincent.com/install-python3-mac/

https://stackoverflow.com/a/20868669/4037275

On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 8:39 AM James <truthse...@gmail.com> wrote:

I downloaded the file from the python website and went through the entire installation process... accepting all of the default values. However, when I went to my Terminal window and typed python, it still shows the older version:

Python 2.7.10 (default, Feb 22 2019, 21:17:52)

[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 10.0.1 (clang-1001.0.37.14)] on darwin

What did I do wrong? I need to get this all setup before I can start the Django tutorial.

Thank you!

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RLM

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Apr 30, 2019, 7:20:03 PM4/30/19

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I guess you installed Python3.7.2 or similar

If so you can call it in a terminal with python3 not just python. Open a terminal and type python3 it should start
python 7.n is the operating system version.
It is important to use pip3 and use virtualenv to create the python 3 environment.

use pip3 to install django in your environment.
When you look at tutorials in google or other specify python3 and >2018 so you don't get out of date tutorials of which there are hundreds.

Cheers
Roger

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Alfredo Sumague

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Apr 30, 2019, 8:27:54 PM4/30/19

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the safest way to use the latest python version (python 3.7.3 is the latest) is to create a virtual environment for python3, from there you install the latest python version, or you can use brew command to install python3. You can also install anaconda on your mac.

Good luck.

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