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Python

Posted by Michael Martorella
Michael Martorella
453 Points

Uninstalling Python 2.X

Hey everyone. I have Python 3.4 installed in my IDE. I would like to have it run as the default version on my Terminal as well. However, when I run Python on my Terminal, I get the following output:

Python 2.7.5 (default, Mar 9 2014, 22:15:05) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 5.0 (clang-500.0.68)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

I can't for the life of me locate Python 2.7.5 on my computer to remove it. Has anyone else experienced this before? Is there a way to fix this?

Please excuse my rookie question.

James White
James White
6,159 Points

You don't want to remove the default installation of Python on your Mac. There are system programs that depend on it.

If you want to run python 3.4 from the terminal you need to type in python3. Or what I've done is alias the python3 command in my .zshrc file to ppp.

1 Answer

Daniel Santos
Daniel Santos
34,969 Points
Daniel Santos
Daniel Santos
34,969 Points

I have experience that when I first started learning Python. James is correct! Once I totally erase Python 2.x from my Mac and that was painful my friend. XCode didn't even open, so don't delete it! And it's a rookie question, but don't worry we all have been there :) I had the same problem. You should run python3, and for pip you must use pip3 if you want to install modules that can be seem by Python 3.x of course.