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by kortex 1607 days ago
PSA: don't use brew to manage your development python, unless you like having the carpet pulled out from under you by brew deciding to change 3.8 to 3.9 on you.

Use brew to install pyenv (or bootstrap it from github). Use pyenv to manage python versions, and then use a virtualenv.

Or conda, if that is your jam.

https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv
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Doctor_Fegg 1606 days ago
Don’t use brew to manage your development anything. Carpet-pulling is pretty much intrinsic to its design.

“hey I upgraded openssl for you and trashed the old one, hope you hadn’t built anything against it!”

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wyclif 1607 days ago
Yes, this is what I do now and since moving to pyenv I haven't had any real issues. The only glitch was that I have to upgrade pyenv from 2.2.3 to 2.2.4 and it just tells me 2.2.4 is already installed when I'm running 2.2.3. I'm guessing that's a homebrew thing?
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