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Can someone explain why nobody seems to use the official Python installers from python.org?

In my experience they work great, you can install multiple versions, and even pip3 seems to just work with them.

I'm not a heavy Python user, but ever since I started using the official installers it just works.

My experience on MacOS was that it doesn't update and cant be uninstalled without using 3rd party scripts.

I could be mistaken, but I didn't find any documentation on how to do it and the fact that other people had projects to try and do it mean that I wasnt alone on finding this a bit of a mess.

Article author here. I think folks like asdf and pyenv because of the ease with which new versions can be installed and removed. For example, I can run asdf install python 3.9.1 and have a new version installed in minutes, without leaving the terminal console. I don't think that's possible via the official python.org installers.

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