{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/caktus/developer-documentation/issues/9","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/caktus/developer-documentation/issues/9/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/caktus/developer-documentation/issues/9/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/caktus/developer-documentation/issues/9/events","html_url":"https://github.com/caktus/developer-documentation/issues/9","id":110856335,"number":9,"title":"consider using brew rather than pythonz to install python 2.7 & 3.4 on macs","user":{"login":"tobiasmcnulty","id":160132,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/160132?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/tobiasmcnulty","html_url":"https://github.com/tobiasmcnulty","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tobiasmcnulty/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tobiasmcnulty/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tobiasmcnulty/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tobiasmcnulty/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tobiasmcnulty/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tobiasmcnulty/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tobiasmcnulty/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tobiasmcnulty/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tobiasmcnulty/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":4,"created_at":"2015-10-11T13:43:24Z","updated_at":"2015-10-11T22:17:44Z","closed_at":null,"body":"* pythonz doesn't put \"python2.7\", \"python3.4\" etc. executables on your PATH so you need to use $(pythonz locate 3.4.3) (https://github.com/saghul/pythonz/issues/11)\r\n* tox allows overriding basepython, but this is complicated when the project also needs to run on Ubuntu (pretty much all the time), since there's no global config file for tox which would allow setting this \r\n* it's possible to install Python 2.7 and 3.4 with brew, which are the main two versions needed anyways (http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/138931/what-is-the-correct-way-to-install-python-on-os-x)\r\n* pythonz could still be documented as a way of getting other non-standard python versions on a mac"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/caktus/developer-documentation/issues/comments/147251028","html_url":"https://github.com/caktus/developer-documentation/issues/9#issuecomment-147251028","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/caktus/developer-documentation/issues/9","id":147251028,"user":{"login":"brandon-rhodes","id":166162,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/166162?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/brandon-rhodes","html_url":"https://github.com/brandon-rhodes","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/brandon-rhodes/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/brandon-rhodes/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/brandon-rhodes/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/brandon-rhodes/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/brandon-rhodes/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/brandon-rhodes/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/brandon-rhodes/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/brandon-rhodes/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/brandon-rhodes/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-10-11T22:17:43Z","updated_at":"2015-10-11T22:17:43Z","body":"Random data point: I have had very good luck having students and friends install Python on OS X via Anaconda — `conda create python=3.4` and so forth. Both 2.7 and 3.4 are supported, not just the most recent version of each series: https://www.continuum.io/downloads"}}