Raymond Hettinger writes:
We're trying to keep performant the ones that people actually use. For the Mac, I think there are only four that matter:
1) The one we distribute on the python.org website at https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.8.0/python-3.8.0a2-macosx10.9.pkg
2) The one installed by homebrew
3) The way folks typically roll their own: $ ./configure && make (or some variant of make install)
4) The one shipped by Apple and put in /usr/bin
I don't see the relevance of (4) since we're talking about the bleeding edge AFAICT. Not clear about Homebrew -- since I've been experimenting with it recently I use the bottled versions, which aren't bleeding edge. If prebuilt packages matter, I would add MacPorts (or substitute it for (4) since nothing seems to get Apple's attention) and Anaconda (which is what I recommend to my students). But I haven't looked at MacPorts' recent download stats, and maybe I'm just the odd one out. Steve -- Associate Professor Division of Policy and Planning Science http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/ Faculty of Systems and Information Email: turnbull@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tel: 029-853-5175 Tennodai 1-1-1, Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN