creating an alias for "python3"

[MED-1996]

On Mac, when checking the version of python, I get 2 different versions....

mitchelldaddario@Mitchells-MacBook-Air ~ % python --version
Python 2.7.16

mitchelldaddario@Mitchells-MacBook-Air ~ % python3 --version
Python 3.10.0

What I want is that when I call "python --version" I get 3.10.0!

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Same goes for when I call "pip" vs. "pip3".

I want all my python commands to be considered from Python 3.10.0. How do I do this?

[cromewar]

Create symlink to latest version

ln -s -f /usr/local/bin/python3.10 /usr/local/bin/python

Close and open a new terminal

and try with

python --version

[cromewar]

You python 3 is on a weird location (don't know why)... Never mind, you would like to use virtualenv (Python virtual environments) anyways for your projects. I'm sorry I couldn't provide you further assistance.

[MED-1996]

It's okay thank you for the help! Installing all these things is the hardest part of coding for me. I'm slowly understanding how it all works but it's really confusing.

[cromewar]

I would have suggested you to delete Python 2, this would have worked to change the reference between python and python 3, but as far as I know I could broke your Mac so better don't. You could use virtual envs as I said, this should get rid of that problem anyways.

[MED-1996]

I'll def look into that over the next couple days...but seeing as this isn't a major issue (as I can just append "3" to the end of statements) I'm not going to worry to much more about this for now!

[cromewar]

You are right is not a big deal to use "3" I still do so on my daily bases... For now I'm going to close this thread, feel free to ask any other questions.