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I would recommend to even use pyenv (https://github.com/yyuu/pyenv) that will allow you to install any Python version in your home directory (i.e. not fucking up your system installation).

If you maintain many FOSS libs like I do, together with tox it's priceless.

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Homebrew installs software into /usr/local last time I checked so unless you are doing something really strange like manually overwriting system files, you'll be hard pressed to fuck up the whole system. Personally I'd install homebrew into /opt/homebrew.

The real advantage of pyenv is being able to install all interpreters in all versions. If you're developing libraries, you're going to need that.

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