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Hey everyone, tweet author here. This was posted in June. In the 2.5 months since that tweet Apple apparently did update Python on Mojave to 2.7.15.

Could an admin take this submission down or flag it?

Why this blew up just today is very surprising to me.

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Hi. I found your thread while looking for more information on (the lack of) Python 3 on Mojave.

As a developer I’m annoyed with having to install third party packages to get access to Python 3. The software Apple ships is also code-signed, which is important to some organizations which relies on binary whitelisting (e.g. github.com/google/santa). Software from Homebrew or Anaconda are typically not code-signed.

I was hoping that perhaps bringing the old Python 2 interpreter up here could lead to more radars for the inclusions of a recent Python 3.x release in the base system.

No major Linux distro besides arch ships with 3 as it's base either. For app development 3 is good but the base platform ecosystems are way harder to move.

Not sure if you would agree to call them major distros but at least Fedora 23 (Nov, 2015) and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Apr, 2018) ships with Python 3 in their base.

Ah,I guessthis ledme to believe that I wasn't. I suppose a better phrasing might be that everything stop ships python as python 2 still.

httpss://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FinalizingFedoraSwitchtoPython3

> No major Linux distro besides arch ships with 3 as it's base either.

To add one more entry to sslalready's list:

Don't know if you consider Manjaro just an Arch derivative, or not-major (despite being the most popular distro on Distrowatch), but Manjaro also ships with Python3 (to be more exact - Python 3.7) as a base.

    $ /usr/bin/python
    Python 3.7.0 (default, Jul 15 2018, 10:44:58) 
    [GCC 8.1.1 20180531] on linux
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>>

In what version? The newest available to me: 10.14 bet a8 (18A371a) is still at 2.7.10.

Sigh, looks like you're right. The person who reported the updated version to me in fact saw their homebrewed Python 2.7 as 2.7.15. So I buried a good chance to raise visibility to the issue when it was still on the front page.

That's unfortunate. For those with enough karma it's however possible to _vouch_ for flagged posts. But maybe it's too late for that now.

Did they?

  % /usr/bin/python -V
  Python 2.7.10

Python 2.7.10 (default, Oct 6 2017, 22:29:07) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 9.0.0 (clang-900.0.31)] on darwin

https://docs.python.org/release/2.7.15/

https://gcc.gnu.org/

https://llvm.org/

https://clang.llvm.org/

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