Setting python3.2 as default instead of python2.7 on Mac OSX Lion 10.7.5

Question

Currently running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 , and it has python2.7 as default. In the terminal, i type \'python\' and it automatically pulls up python2.7. I don\'t want that.

Answer 1

The safest way is to set an alias in ~/.bashrc:

 alias python=python3

That way you avoid breaking things for scripts relaying on python being python2.

Answer 2

If you have python 2 and 3 on brew. Following worked for me.

brew unlink python@2

brew link python@3 (if not yet linked)

Answer 3

You could edit the default python path and point it to python3.2

Open up ~/.bash_profile in an editor and edit it so it looks like

PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.2/bin:${PATH}" export PATH