Getting python3.8 with macports

[dan d.]

"Port info portname" pulls up just the info for that item, including current version and other useful information.

On Fri, 16 Apr 2021, Lenore Horner wrote:

> 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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