Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 16 2024 at 20:44): Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 16 2024 at 20:44):I got a new Mac and I'm finding myself using the system python again. Is it wrong? It feels right. :grinning: It's Python 3.9.6. New enough to install Sphinx at least!
Jan Range (Jul 16 2024 at 20:51):I'd recommend updating to at least 3.10 if not 3.11. Afaik 3.9 is the lowest version currently supported by most packages.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 16 2024 at 20:53):Ok, ok, I'm just fun'in' :grinning:
Sebastian Höffner (Jul 21 2024 at 14:03):I recommend you use brew, macports, (mini)conda, (mini)mamba, or pyenv to manage your python versions and just leave the system python alone. Otherwise you might inadvertently update something or install something which breaks your system python, causing all sorts of troubles with tools which rely on it being exactly as it is intended
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 22 2024 at 13:17):Oh, I certainly wouldn't become root when using the system python.
But yeah, I need to (again) pick one of the above. I'll probably use brew or conda. Not sure.
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