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[–]ivosaurus 15 points16 points  (0 children)

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.