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JosephTLyons
JosephTLyons

Reputation: 2133

I've Installed Python 3.7.10, but macOS keeps reporting 2.7.10 when running `python --version`

I'm fairly new to Python, but I assume that I need to point something to the new version of python in order to have my system know there is a new version installed. I'm on macOS 10.13.6 and installed the newest python with Homebrew's command brew install python. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I've tried following this tutorial, but I'm stuck at the portion "ensure PATH....", as it tends to lose me:

# Do I have a Python 3 installed?
$ python --version
Python 3.6.4 # Success!
# If you still see 2.7 ensure in PATH /usr/local/bin/ takes precedence over /usr/bin/

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1082

Answers (1)

muke
muke

Reputation: 396

Try python3 --version.

Usually you need to add 3 on the end to anything you do with Python in the terminal.

Upvotes: 2

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