🔒 problems of different versions of python on my Mac M1

[opaque thunder]

Hi everyone,
I have many problems with Python on my Mac, i am a French students in Mathematics and i need Python working on my mac to do some practical works. I use VSCode to write code but i have like 5 differents versions of Python (some are old) at different localisation in my mac, i want to upgrade to Python 3.13 and probably i need to erase the older versions. I would like also to have the Manim librairy to do some Mathematic animations.
Thanks to the person who will help me 🙂

[rugged pulsar]

@opaque thunder

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[main saddle]

https://www.python.org/downloads/macos/

just download the version u need

shouldnt need to delete old ones

[opaque thunder]

ok i retest with this version

[waxen stirrup]

It seems that you already got Python 3.13 via homebrew, so why not just use that for your purpose? The old versions are related to Xcode, miniconda/anaconda etc. You shouldn't uninstall them unless you don't need them at all.

[opaque thunder]

i don't need older version i think, the new one can run older script no ?

i am supposed to have installed the manim library but doesn't work :/

class CreateCircle(Scene):
    def construct(self):
        circle = Circle()  # create a circle
        circle.set_fill(PINK, opacity=0.5)  # set the color and transparency
        self.play(Create(circle))  # show the circle on screen```py

[rugged pulsar]

Hey @opaque thunder!

Please edit your message to use a code block

Add a py after the three backticks.

```py
print('Hello, world!')
```

This will result in the following:

print('Hello, world!')```

[waxen stirrup]

Keep in mind recent Python major releases are full of breaking changes to retire ancient features, so older scripts might break.

You need to define "doesn't work". What exactly is the error?

[opaque thunder]

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/noah/manimations/TesTmanim.py", line 1, in <module>
    from manim import *
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'manim'````

[waxen stirrup]

You are not supposed to run it that way. To use your Python 3.13, you should run /opt/homebrew/bin/python3 whatever.py

[opaque thunder]

so files are not at the good place ?

[waxen stirrup]

And if any package to install, you should run /opt/homebrew/bin/python3 -m pip install whatever

[opaque thunder]

this the error of the terminal in VSCode

[waxen stirrup]

Because you need to tell VS Code to use that homebrew installed Python interpreter. Otherwise, VS Code is confused and might use a wrong one.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/python#_environments

Microsoft documented all necessary details so you must get started from there.

[opaque thunder]

so my files wathever.pyshould be here ?

the problem is that in my opt doc i only have the anaconda3 doc

no homebrew doc

[rugged pulsar]

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