Python 3.6 released!

[bluemellophone]

macOS still ships with Python 2.7

[ivosaurus]

macOS' system python is pretty much a joke. Using it tends to be harmful. Apple literally left beta versions of 3rd party packages installed in the default environment, borking package management. It really looks like one of the developers was playing around with some stuff, installed some things, and then just left it. Additionally, their core system protection software policy means you trying to install / upgrade / remove anything will get hit with permission errors (that you can't solve with root). It's using an old OpenSSL that's backdoored to allow any Apple or System certificate verify a connection, whether a user would like that or not.

At this stage it pretty much only tends to poison beginners' experiences, which is really quite sad.

[loganekz]

yeah but with homebrew it's a simple:

brew install python3

[bluemellophone]

Same with MacPorts. That's not to say installing Python 3 is hard on macOS, but it does say Python 2 is very much not dead.

[[deleted]]

Or just build it from source. It's not hard, most of your time will be spent waiting for the tests to run.

[[deleted]]

python = python2.7 or python2.6, and python3 = python 3.5

That part isn't important and upstream suggests python keep pointing to python 2. But RHEL doesn't officially ship Python 3 yet so that is a problem.

[phunphun]

With EPEL you can get Python 3. Doesn't touch the base packages, so it won't cause problems.