brew-installed Python not overriding system python

Question

I just used brew to install Python 3 on OS X. The python3 command now starts the interpreter using brew Python 3.6, but python still opens the interpr

Answer 1

I tried a few of the proposed solutions in How to link home brew python version and set it as default, but none of them worked. Ultimately I solved this by symlinking python3 --> python:

ln -s /usr/local/bin/python3 /usr/local/bin/python