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Reputation: 31

Homebrew macOS - Python installation

I've installed python via homebrew. It is located in: /usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.13_1 which should be right. Now I am trying to use this python installation, but "which python" only shows the macOS python installation at "/usr/bin/python". So i am checking the $PATH and I see that everything should be ok.

"echo $PATH" results in this: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

I restarted the terminal window and this occurs every time. I also did the "brew doctor" and no warnings appeared.

What I am using: Standard macOS Terminal-App

Has anybody a clue how this problem could be solved?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 472

Answers (3)

Shywel
Shywel

Reputation: 1

Brew create an python2 alias to

/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.13_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python2.7

I just created a copy of python2 alias and rename it to python. That solved the problem

Upvotes: 0

Philip Stark
Philip Stark

Reputation: 638

Either add the Python Homebrew prefix to your $PATH, like @Zico suggests in his answer, or link the Python executable into /usr/local/bin (which might already be in your path)

You'd do that with

$ brew link python

Good luck :)

Upvotes: 0

Nur Zico
Nur Zico

Reputation: 2447

Update $PATH in your .bashrc file.

Example add the following line in your .bashrc

export PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.13_1/bin:$PATH

Upvotes: 0

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