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When working on Python projects, pyenv is a great python environment / version manager, especially on macOS wherein you cannot easily control the python system version.

I’d recommend to install it with homebrew (brew install pyenv).

The upstream documentation is great. The commands you’ll typically use are:

• pyenv versions: list all installed versions
• pyenv global <version>: set a specific python version for your whole system
• pyenv local: set a specific python version only for a specific project (directory)

And then it’s handy to add the following blurb to your shell rc file to make pyenv work properly out-of-the-box:

# pyenv: https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv
if hash pyenv >/dev/null 2>&1; then
	export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"
	path_munge "$PYENV_ROOT/bin"
	eval "$(pyenv init -)"
fi

Note that path_munge is a custom function, it merely appends the given argument to the $PATH.