Getting python3.8 with macports

[Lenore Horner]

Even when I don’t know much about a port’s name, usually port search blah where blah is some guess at a name returns enough that I can figure out what I was really looking for.  (R is annoying though if I forget to put a space in the search).  For instance port search python 3.8 pulls up somethings with py38 in the name which suggests trying with no spaces.  Or port search python gets a lot of stuff but in there show up python37, python38, python39 etc.
Lenore

> On Apr 16, 2021, at 18:15, Christoph Kukulies <kuku at kukulies.org> wrote:
> 
> Ah, I wasn’t aware of writing python38
> all in one without any interpunctuation.
> —
> Christoph
> 
> 
> 
>> Am 16.04.2021 um 17:10 schrieb Christopher Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk>:
>> 
>> Just like how you would install any other port...
>> 
>>> sudo port install python38
>> 
>> gives the latest python 3.8
>> 
>> or
>> 
>>> sudo port install python39
>> 
>> for the latest in the 3.9 series.
>> 
>>> On 16 Apr 2021, at 3:47 pm, Christoph Kukulies <kuku at kukulies.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> How can I upgrade to the latest version of python (python 3.8.x)?
>>> Or should I use conda or something else?
>>> 
>>> —
>>> Christoph
>>> 
>> 
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