Fresh Apple M1 install of homebrew and python, need to update path?

[TXBDan]

Sorry for the noob question. I just installed homebrew (arm native install) with no issues. I then installed python via "brew install python" (3.9.1) and again no issues. I see the bins are hidden away here: /opt/homebrew/opt/python3/bin

Do I simply add this path to my PATH to be able to access them? Just want to double check in case its better to link them or something. Some text during the python install mentioned linking, but Im not clear on if I was a warning or an action.

Thanks

[Rylan12]

Are you having trouble using python? If you've added /opt/homebrew/bin to your path (which seems likely given that you were able to run brew install python) you should be good. Homebrew automatically links binaries to $(brew --prefix)/bin which is /opt/homebrew/bin on arm macs.

Check which -a python3 to make sure that /opt/homebrew/bin/python3 shows up. If so, python3 -V should return 3.9.1.

If not, check brew doctor. If it has a warning saying you python@3.9 us unlinked, running brew link python@3.9 should solve your problem.

[gromgit]

tommy@MacBook-Air bin % python3 -V
Python 3.8.2
tommy@MacBook-Air bin % which -a python3
/opt/homebrew/bin/python3
/usr/bin/python3
tommy@MacBook-Air bin % type python3
python3 is /usr/bin/python3

Looks like you ran the system Python before installing Homebrew Python, so the former is still in zsh's command hash table. Run the following:

hash -r
type python3

That last command should then print python3 is /opt/homebrew/bin/python3.

[gogohaku]

Hi, gromgit!

OMG! type python3 returned /opt/homebrew/bin/python3.
It's cleared!

Thank you so much!!

[emil-ep]

Ran into the same issue mentioned by @gogohaku . The solution mentioned by @gromgit solved the issue,. Thanks !

[amathamsetty]

Hi @Rylan12 How can we change the python path to /usr/local/bin because brew installs it to /opt/homebrew/bin/python3 ? I have tried changing the .zprofile but did not help. Can you help me with this?

[prasanna-munnangi]

@amathamsetty , with apple silicon the default location of brew has been changed to /opt/homebrew from /usr/local/bin. Usually it is not recommended to change the default location