How Can I Run Python 3.9.1 Natively On M1 Mac?

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Solution 1:

You can now install python 3.9.1 through multiple pathways now but the most comprehensive build environment for the full data-science suite for python at the moment (Feb 2021) on M1 ARM architecture is via miniforge.

e.g.

brew install --cask miniforge
conda init zsh
conda activate
conda install numpy scipy scikit-learn

Solution 2:

You can now install Python 3.9.4 natively on Mac M1 (Apple Silicon). I'm using pyenv to install Python 3.7, 3.8 and 3.9 all native ARM. For example, to install 3.9.4:

$ pyenv install 3.9.4
python-build: use openssl@1.1 from homebrew
python-build: usereadline from homebrew
Downloading Python-3.9.4.tar.xz...
-> https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.9.4/Python-3.9.4.tar.xz
Installing Python-3.9.4...
python-build: usereadline from homebrew
python-build: use zlib from xcode sdk
Installed Python-3.9.4 to /Users/squademy/.pyenv/versions/3.9.4

For a complete guide on install pyenv and multiple Python version, you might read this article: https://squademy.medium.com/install-python-on-macos-11-m1-apple-silicon-using-pyenv-12e0729427a9.

Solution 3:

I am using python3.9.4. I installed it using homebrew only.

I tried to install pandas by pip3 install pandas

It took a while but it got successfully installed in my M1 Macbook Pro.

Here's the log

❯ pip3 install pandas

Collecting pandas
  Downloading pandas-1.2.4.tar.gz (5.5 MB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 5.5 MB 855 kB/s
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
    Preparing wheel metadata ... done
Collecting numpy>=1.16.5
  Using cached numpy-1.20.2-cp39-cp39-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl
Collecting pytz>=2017.3
  Downloading pytz-2021.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (510 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 510 kB 8.8 MB/s
Collecting python-dateutil>=2.7.3
  Downloading python_dateutil-2.8.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (227 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 227 kB 10.5 MB/s
Requirement already satisfied: six>=1.5 in /opt/homebrew/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from python-dateutil>=2.7.3->pandas) (1.15.0)
Building wheels for collected packages: pandas
  Building wheel for pandas (PEP 517) ... /

done
  Created wheel for pandas: filename=pandas-1.2.4-cp39-cp39-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl size=9354006 sha256=87fead2b2cacdfdc448c444899dfffca3b82275635ac8d51a39790ede623e342
  Stored in directory: /Users/pks/Library/Caches/pip/wheels/1c/18/1d/96f6fb133a77724bc42fce621a44162d840d037b9289c4a874
Successfully built pandas
Installing collected packages: pytz, python-dateutil, numpy, pandas
Successfully installed numpy-1.20.2 pandas-1.2.4 python-dateutil-2.8.1 pytz-2021.1

Solution 4:

I upgraded to 3.9.4

1. Download the Python universal installer - https://www.python.org/downloads/mac-osx/

Note: I still could not get sudo pip install mysqlclient to install. I had add to

1. update homebrew - See https://brew.sh
2. Add /opt/homebrew/bin to PATH in .bash_profile (don't forget to source .bash_profile) or Add /opt/homebrew/bin to PATH in .zprofile (don't forget to source .zprofile) if using zsh