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Python for Mac

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Python for Mac is a dynamic object-oriented programming language that can be used for many kinds of software development. It offers strong support for integration with other languages and tools, comes with extensive standard libraries, and can be learned in a few days.

Many Python programmers report substantial productivity gains and feel the language encourages the development of higher quality, more maintainable code.

Python runs on macOS, Windows, Linux/Unix, OS/2, Amiga, Palm Handhelds, and Nokia mobile phones. The tool has also been ported to the Java and .NET virtual machines.

The app is distributed under an OSI-approved open source license that makes it free to use, even for commercial products.

Some of its key distinguishing features include:
  • Very clear, readable syntax
  • Strong introspection capabilities
  • Intuitive object orientation
  • Natural expression of procedural code
  • Full modularity, supporting hierarchical packages
  • Exception-based error handling
  • Very high level dynamic data types
  • Extensive standard libraries and third party modules for virtually every task
  • Extensions and modules easily written in C, C++ (or Java for Jython, or .NET languages for IronPython)
  • Embeddable within applications as a scripting interface
How to Use

Open the downloaded installer

Follow installation instructions

Verify with python3 --version in Terminal

Use IDLE or install an IDE like VS Code or PyCharm

Write and save Python scripts with .py extension

Run scripts using Terminal with python3 script.py

System Requirements
  • macOS 10.9 or later
  • At least 100 MB of free disk space
  • Intel or Apple Silicon processor
  • Command Line Tools for Xcode (for pip/build tools)
  • Internet connection for package installations
PROS
  • Easy to install on macOS
  • Great for beginners and pros
  • Compatible with Apple Silicon
  • Strong macOS Terminal support
  • Wide IDE and tool support
CONS
  • No native GUI app builder included
  • Needs setup for virtualenvs
  • Conflicts with preinstalled Python
  • Some packages may need brew tools
  • Slow performance for heavy apps
Also Available: Download Python for Windows

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What's new in this version:

New features:
- PEP 779: Free-threaded Python is officially supported
- PEP 649: The evaluation of annotations is now deferred, improving the semantics of using annotations
- PEP 750: Template string literals (t-strings) for custom string processing, using the familiar syntax of f-strings
- PEP 734: Multiple interpreters in the stdlib
- PEP 784: A new module compression.zstd providing support for the Zstandard compression algorithm
- PEP 758: except and except* expressions may now omit the brackets
- Syntax highlighting in PyREPL, and support for color in unittest, argparse, json and calendar CLIs
- PEP 768: A zero-overhead external debugger interface for CPython
- UUID versions 6-8 are now supported by the uuid module, and generation of versions 3-5 are up to 40% faster
- PEP 765: Disallow return/break/continue that exit a finally block
- PEP 741: An improved C API for configuring Python
- A new type of interpreter. For certain newer compilers, this interpreter provides significantly better performance. Opt-in for now, requires building from source.
- Improved error messages
- Builtin implementation of HMAC with formally verified code from the HACL* project
- A new command-line interface to inspect running Python processes using asynchronous tasks
- The pdb module now supports remote attaching to a running Python process
- For more details on the changes to Python 3.14, see What’s new in Python 3.14

Build changed:
- PEP 761: Python 3.14 and onwards no longer provides PGP signatures for release artifacts. Instead, Sigstore is recommended for verifiers.
- Official macOS and Windows release binaries include an experimental JIT compiler
- Official Android binary releases are now available

Incompatible changes, removals and new deprecations:
- Incompatible changes
- Python removals and deprecations
- C API removals and deprecations
- Overview of all pending deprecations

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