How to remove all old installs of Python on iMac M1

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Just installed 3.12.0 but still see folders 3.9 and 3.10. What can I safely remove?

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See 5. Using Python on a Mac — Python 3.12.0 documentation

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Many thanks Barry - very informative. Just a further question; I believe Numpy and Matlab addons are not currently working on version 3.12? Is this true?

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You can check the status on the packages PyPI page.
I just web search for pypi numpy and get to this page numpy · PyPI

If you look near the bottom of the page you can see a section Meta
where it says Requires: Python <3.13, >=3.9 which means that it does support 3.12

I do know how to check matlab as it not clear to me what the package name is.
But I’m sure you know it.

Hope that helps.

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Again many thanks. I’m not sure if this is the correct place to ask, but I have Python3 ver 3.12.0 installed and IDLE shell shows 3.12.0. I can write and run simple programs using IDLE. However if I write a Python script and run it in Terminal, it will also run, but when using Python --version it shows 3.9.7. Not sure whats going on here. Again using iMac M1.

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Please start a new topic as this is a new topic.