Use homebrew instead of manual installation — Like most developers using MacOS, we use Homebrew to install and update software/casks. As of this writing, I was having challenges updating Python2 to Python3. Steps Taken Check Version $ brew info python Result: python: stable 3.7.7 (bottled), HEAD
Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language
https://www.python.org/
Not installed
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/python.rb
==> Dependencies
Build: pkg-config ✘
Required: gdbm ✔, openssl@1.1 ✔, readline ✔…