homebrew-python

About this project

This Homebrew tap provides formulae to install multiple Python versions.

Installing formulae

Replace X in examples below with minor version of Python -- 7 for Python 3.7, or 8 for Python 3.8.

Python 3.X will be installed into /usr/local/opt/[email protected], as a keg, i.e without linking into /usr/local/bin in order to avoid conflicts with the python formulae.

brew install sashkab/python/[email protected]

You can use it to create a virtual environment by passing full path to the Python executable:

/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3.X -mvenv <path to venv>

In order to update to latest version of pip, setuptools and wheel, use following command:

/usr/local/opt/[email protected]/bin/python3.X -mpip install -U pip setuptools wheel

Deprecations

Python 2.7

Python 2.7 has been removed from this repository in early January 2020 after it reached end-of-life. See #46 for details.

Python 3.6

Python 3.6 has been removed from this repository in March 2022 after it reached end-of-life.

Acknowledgement

This repository started as a fork of the zoidbergwill/homebrew-python.