python VS HomeBrew

Compare python vs HomeBrew and see what are their differences.

python

Framework files for use with popular python macadmin toolsets (by macadmins)

HomeBrew

🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux) (by Homebrew)
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python HomeBrew
9 1278
218 38,997
1.8% 1.6%
7.5 10.0
8 days ago 7 days ago
Shell Ruby
Apache License 2.0 BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License
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python

Posts with mentions or reviews of python. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-24.
  • How do I add Foundation module in Python3 on MacOS Ventura
    4 projects | /r/learnpython | 24 Jan 2023
    Here it says Foundation is part of pyobjc which may be included in certain versions of python3 such as this https://github.com/macadmins/python - Looking at it now, it seems to set itself apart from the developer tools installation of python3 based on it's installation location. So my guess is that it isn't a module installed with CLT's python3.
  • Installing PKGs via Jamf, how can I "customize" the installer?
    2 projects | /r/macsysadmin | 25 Nov 2022
    Installing python (the MacAdmins Foundation distribution of Python) would be as simple as uploading the installomator script to JSS, adding it as a policy payload with "macadminspython" as a parameter.
  • What is your process for deploying Python?
    2 projects | /r/macsysadmin | 2 Aug 2022
  • Updtating Jamf Scripts to Work with Monterery 12.4
    3 projects | /r/macsysadmin | 12 Jul 2022
    Sounds like the scripts you have may be written in Python 2, which as others have stated, was pulled in 12.3. You can try running one with a Python 2 or 3 interpreter to see. You could technically deploy your own Python 2 to people and update the shebangs on the scripts to reflect the updated Python binary location. But Python 2 has been deprecated since January 2020 so it's probably best to just update the scripts. I dealt with this myself and am by no means a programmer. We have a critical script that maps printers for people that I had to update. I used something called '2to3' which is I believe an official Python program that does its best to convert Python 2 code to Python 3 in an automated fashion. It did 99% of the work for me. My script was still failing, but it was just a variable that was being concatenated as a byte instead of a string. Once that was fixed it ran fine. And then we started deploying https://github.com/macadmins/python - as others have mentioned. And then just updated the shebang to point to where that Python gets installed as per their instructions.
    3 projects | /r/macsysadmin | 12 Jul 2022
  • macOS Monterey 12.3 Update is now Available - Python 2.7 Removed & Universal Control Added!
    2 projects | /r/macsysadmin | 14 Mar 2022
    Removed. I deployed macadmins Python3 https://github.com/macadmins/python and changed the shebang in scripts we use.
  • Installing Python on client Macs
    4 projects | /r/macsysadmin | 15 Apr 2021

HomeBrew

Posts with mentions or reviews of HomeBrew. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-27.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing python and HomeBrew you can also consider the following projects:

spack - A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.

asdf - Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more

Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code

winget-cli - WinGet is the Windows Package Manager. This project includes a CLI (Command Line Interface), PowerShell modules, and a COM (Component Object Model) API (Application Programming Interface).

osxfuse - FUSE extends macOS by adding support for user space file systems

Chocolatey - Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows

Docker-OSX - Run macOS VM in a Docker! Run near native OSX-KVM in Docker! X11 Forwarding! CI/CD for OS X Security Research! Docker mac Containers.

ohmyzsh - 🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,200+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.

nvm - Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions

chromebrew - Package manager for Chrome OS [Moved to: https://github.com/chromebrew/chromebrew]

Scoop - A command-line installer for Windows.

PHP Brew - Brew & manage PHP versions in pure PHP at HOME