Python and Django

Mac OSX

Standard Python version 2.7.10 is installed on Mac OSX High Sierra and under MAMP. This version is located in:

• /Application/MAMP/Library/bin/python
• /usr/bin/python

Official this version is deprecated and is out-of-service from 2020. A good reason to upgrade . The installer will create a directory:

• /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/bin/python3.6
• /usr/local/bin/python3.6

Python 2 installation

The symbolic links in the Application MAMP bin directory (/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin): <syntaxhighlight lang="bash" line start="1"> $ la python* lrwxr-xr-x 1 frielink1 admin 7B Dec 23 20:01 python -> python2 lrwxr-xr-x 1 frielink1 admin 14B Mar 8 2016 python-config -> python2-config lrwxr-xr-x 1 frielink1 admin 9B Mar 8 2016 python2 -> python2.7 lrwxr-xr-x 1 frielink1 admin 16B Mar 8 2016 python2-config -> python2.7-config -rwxrwxr-x 1 frielink1 admin 2.0M Jul 6 2015 python2.7 -rwxrwxr-x 1 frielink1 admin 1.7K Jul 6 2015 python2.7-config </syntaxhighlight>

• The 1st and 3rd' symbolic link make the python command point to python2.7 on the 5th line.
• The 2nd and 4th symbolic link make the python-config command point to the python2.7-config on the 6th line.