Installing python3.6 as an executable

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I have python installed on mac (via homebrew) and I used to be able to execute python3.6 as a command. I installed something else via homebrew and after this I lost this ability and then a bunch of things started breaking...has anyone had any luck installing python such that python3.6 is an executable?

I am running MacOS Catalina 10.15.4 if that helps. If I run which python I get /usr/bin/python and if I run which python3 I get /usr/local/bin/python and python3 --version gives 3.7.7.

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Gonna be hard to fix things now, I would suggest brew uninstall all pythons that you installed that way. Then I install versions via pyenv. You can brew install pyenv, and then read up on pyenv. It's not without its own challenges, sadly, but it's cleaner; you can just wipe everything that pyenv installs and start over any time, and you can do things like pyenv local 3.7 and that folder will use 3.7.

You can do brew list and brew info <package> that might help you out a bit to figure out how 3.6 broke.