![]() ![]() Scripting language runtimes such as Python, Ruby, and Perl are included in macOS for compatibility with legacy software. With the announcement of Catalina, Apple also announced that in a “future version of macOS” there will be no pre-installed Python of any version. Nevertheless, presumably because of the compatibility issues, Apple has always pre-installed Python 2 with macOS and still does so in macOS 10.15 Catalina. Python 2 was finally sunset on January 1, 2020. For this reason, Python 2 was maintained and updated alongside Python 3 for a long time. Python 3.0 was released in 2008 and it was not fully backwards compatible with Python 2. ![]() Why?Īpple has included a version of Python 2 with Mac OS X since 10.2 (Jaguar). AutoPkg, JSSImport and outset announced Python 3 compatible versions last week and Munki already had the first Python 3 version last December. ![]() As I noted in my last Weekly News Summary, several open source projects for MacAdmins have completed their transition to Python 3. ![]()
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