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This week was not only the release of macOS Monterey, but it was also new Mac Book Pro week for a lot of people, including myself. Given that it was alot of effot to install Python on macOS Big Sur I was a little worried that it would take the same amount of effort. As I was starting a with a clean macOS Monterey installation and had already installed Homebew external link I just needed to run the following command to install pyenv external link :...

When Apple releases a new version of macOS it always takes a few months for everything to catchup, following my last blog post where I mentioned that I was having problems installing Python on macOS Big Sur external link which meant that my preferred method of installing and managing Python using pyenv, which is documented in this blog post external link , didn’t work out of the box — and the workarounds suggested workarounds on GitHub made my shell really slow....

The latest major version of Python 2 was originally release on 03/07/2010 and on 01/01/2020 Python 2 will be no more; We have decided that January 1, 2020, will be the day that we sunset Python 2. That means that we will not improve it anymore after that day, even if someone finds a security problem in it. You should upgrade to Python 3 as soon as you can. Interestingly the latest version of macOS still ships with Python 2....