I'm a new Mac user. I installed python 2.7.6 but I cannot run my scripts (through IDLE or simply a script). I want to reinstall it but I don't want to mess with the version which comes pre-installed on mac. Thank you for your help. note: there are questions on stackOverflow that are similar to mine, yet they do not address the issue of the pre-installed version of python. or is it irrelevant?
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Installed how? From where? – tripleee Mar 13 '14 at 05:09
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Hi! I downloaded it from python.org and ran it from there. I did not use the terminal to install it if that's what you mean. – omar Mar 13 '14 at 13:50
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So, first link in the table on http://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-335/? – tripleee Mar 13 '14 at 14:36
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yes, it's the first link. – omar Mar 14 '14 at 01:33
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possible duplicate of [How to uninstall Python 2.7 on a Mac OS X 10.6.4?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3819449/how-to-uninstall-python-2-7-on-a-mac-os-x-10-6-4) – Tim Apr 17 '15 at 07:41
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To uninstall python, see: How to uninstall Python 2.7 on a Mac OS X 10.6.4?
A potential solution would be to specify which python interpreter to use when writing your scripts. Or you can specify a python alias, store which python interpreter you wish to use and save it to your .bash_profile.
This might also guide you to the right direction: Setting default interpreter for a python script
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