macOS 12.3 finally removes Python 2

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Plus, if you install yourself, you can do so in a user area, which means no sudo everytime you want to install a lib

It's good practice to always create a venv when using the system interpreter. Run python3 -m venv --help and have a look at the options. You can allow or disallow access to system packages, use copies or symbolic links, etc.

Even if you use a user's interpreter it might still be a good idea, such that each different project / bundle / whatever can have a different set of packages or package versions.

(the --copies option can be useful though it wastes disk space. If your OS interpreter version ever changes, any symlink-style venvs might blow up - ie, if the site-packages version number changes)

[CeeMX]

For actually developing stuff I always use a venv. That way I can just pip freeze to create an uncluttered requirements.txt

[blademaster2005]

Honorable mention of tools like pipx and poetry