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Kodebae

Hi Yumei, 👋🏽 Humm, I'm not sure about that. This post was originally made when the M1 chip first debuted and I don't know if that was the case back then. But please share any updated recommendations in the comments with everyone. This information, like most technical related things will definitely need to be updated to keep it current and useful. 😁

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Yumei Leventhal

Your post was very helpful. My issue was resolved, but I'm not sure I can clearly identify what resolved it--the last thing I did was restarting the Terminal lol. I was trying to work on a project I'd started on another MBP, so I re-created VENV. Python3 does seem to come preinstalled--I didn't install it and didn't think to check specifically for Python3.

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Well that's really good to hear! I'm glad your issue is resolved. Restarting the Terminal is always a good idea, I do that sometimes too. I didn't know that Python3 is preinstalled now. I wonder if that is because of Monterey iOS. If you ever figure out what resolved your issue please let me know. :)

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Yumei Leventhal

Update: Though Python3 did come with my MBP, Visual Studio Code wasn't happy using it and gave me an error. So I hadn't resolved anything after all 😬 So I followed the steps you outlined and installed Python3 using Homebrew. The only change I made was brew install python3 instead of brew install python3 *. The * at the end threw an error (No available formula with the name "Applications".)-not sure what that meant. Bottom line: Python3 was successfully installed. Thank you!

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Kodebae

Yay! Success! I'm so happy that you got it all figured out! Glad my post could help. 😃