# Right way to do a Python clean install on Mac

Aditya — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 06:28:28 +0000

We all have been there trying to figure out the root cause of failure of your scripts, we finally decide to get ride of python once and for all (not really ;))

This is my opinionated post on how to clean python completely from your system and then do a fresh install

Use Homebrew to do the heavy lifting

check to see if homebrew is installed on your system. more info on its website -> https://brew.sh/

$ brew --version
Homebrew 2.5.11
Homebrew/homebrew-core (git revision d4069; last commit 2020-11-18)
Homebrew/homebrew-cask (git revision 0374c82; last commit 2020-11-18)

If you don't see the above, lets install homebrew.

$ /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"

Now you should be able to run

$ brew --version

Clean up existing Python installations

Note please dont remove the existing python 2.7 which comes along with your mac, there might be apps using this !

so the default installation of python exists at /usr/bin/python, lets keep it as is
However, the python installations located in /usr/local/bin are often symbolic links and can be deleted.

List all those by running

$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/ | grep python*

You should now see a list of links which are most likely installed in this path -> ../../../Library/Frameworks/Python.framework. If Python were to be installed by Homebrew, it would be installed in the path -> /Cellar/python@...

Clean up all python links

$ sudo rm /usr/local/bin/python*
$ sudo rm /usr/local/bin/pip*
$ sudo rm /usr/local/bin/easy*

Remove versions of python install in the Framework path

$ sudo rm -Rf /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/*

Environment setup

open ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_profile and clean up all the references to python Framework path and only have

export PATH='/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:$PATH'

Install Python using brew

Using brew install python

$ brew install python3

Note: as of Nov 17, 2020: the above command will install python@3.9

To always keep the python updated using brew

$ brew upgrade

Hope this helps keep a clean and updated python version

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# Updating a forked Repo with Origin

Aditya — Fri, 27 Dec 2019 09:04:37 +0000

You are looking to contribute to an awesome project on GitHub and you finally find it and fork the repo. a few weeks later you worked on the forked repo but are afraid the fork is way behind the original repo. how would you keep it up to date? here is how

Below are the steps to always keep the forked repo up to date with its original repo

1.Add the remote/original repo and lets call it upstream

$ git remote add upstream https://github.com/original-repo/repo-name.git

2.Fetch all branches from remote upstream

$ git fetch upstream

3.Use git rebase to re-write your master with upstream’s master. Note: rebase will fail, if you have uncommitted changes in your forked master

$ git rebase upstream/master

4.Push your updates to master using force