Installing Python on macOS and Linux

Python3 is not generally pre-installed on macOS and may need to be installed for your Linux system. For Linux, it is preferable to use your system’s default package manager, such as yum or apt. If you are planning to use Anaconda (our recommendation), a system python is not required as python is installed as part of the Anaconda environment.

Alternatively:

• you can download Anaconda from https://www.anaconda.com/download and follow the given directions for installation.

• you can download the Python installer appropriate for your system from http://www.python.org/download/, and follow the given directions for installation.