Hey y'all-
I got in way over my head troubleshooting this little Python app, ended up trying to install different versions of Python, remove them again, etc. And now it's just all jacked up.
Anyway to just wipe it all clean and go back to just a clean version of the Python that shipped with Ventura?
Josh's Social Nexus
Apple stopped including the Python 2.7.* distribution with macOS 12.3. Optionally, Xcode and the Command Line Tools for Xcode both install an older version of Python 3.9.6 in /usr/bin. I don't use that version.
Visit Python.org and select Download. Choose their Python 3.11.4 (Universal2) installer and once it has downloaded, double-click its proper Mac installer to commence the installation. It will place links in /usr/local/bin for Python3, idle3, pip3, and so forth back to their actual installation location in:
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.11/bin
It will also create a /Applications/Python 3.11 folder.
You then plain text edit your shell dot file (e.g. ~/.zshrc for the Zsh shell, or ~/.bash_profile for the Bash shell) by changing the PATH environment variable to find the Python binaries and library:
export PATH=".:/usr/local/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.11/bin:${PATH}"
and then depending on the shell:
source ~/.zshrc
source ~/.bash_profile
either of which will set the current Terminal session PATH as you have changed it.
Then, any Python script should begin with:
#!/usr/bin/env python3
or you can run a Python3 compatible script as:
python3 thiscript.py
Here is an example that you can try:
chmod +x ./ranimg.py
./ranimg.py ~/Pictures
It will randomly print the full path to a single image in your Pictures folder.
Apple stopped including the Python 2.7.* distribution with macOS 12.3. Optionally, Xcode and the Command Line Tools for Xcode both install an older version of Python 3.9.6 in /usr/bin. I don't use that version.
Visit Python.org and select Download. Choose their Python 3.11.4 (Universal2) installer and once it has downloaded, double-click its proper Mac installer to commence the installation. It will place links in /usr/local/bin for Python3, idle3, pip3, and so forth back to their actual installation location in:
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.11/bin
It will also create a /Applications/Python 3.11 folder.
You then plain text edit your shell dot file (e.g. ~/.zshrc for the Zsh shell, or ~/.bash_profile for the Bash shell) by changing the PATH environment variable to find the Python binaries and library:
export PATH=".:/usr/local/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.11/bin:${PATH}"
and then depending on the shell:
source ~/.zshrc
source ~/.bash_profile
either of which will set the current Terminal session PATH as you have changed it.
Then, any Python script should begin with:
#!/usr/bin/env python3
or you can run a Python3 compatible script as:
python3 thiscript.py
Here is an example that you can try:
chmod +x ./ranimg.py
./ranimg.py ~/Pictures
It will randomly print the full path to a single image in your Pictures folder.
I don’t believe any version shipped with Ventura. It will install with the Xcode command line tools, but that’s the closest thing to a “shipped with Ventura“ version.
Python All Messed Up- Just want a clean slate
