(This is a reminder to myself, and maybe a help for someone else who might be in the same situation as me. The purpose was to be able to lint documentation I’m trying to update for the pip project work.)
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This applies to installing “the latest” Python on Mac OS X 10.15.6.
I’ve used this helpful How-TO. Everything worked until the very end where brew couldn’t create a necessary directory:
(no idea why!)
I reran install python and got:
Solution (hack?)
The solution was to create the /usr/local/Framworks directory manually:
Then change the owner and group to mirror other directories (bernard:admin)
Install Python 2.7 Mac Catalina
And finally run the brew link command from above:
Install Python On Mac Catalina Free
And then I could start what I wanted to actually do. 🙂