> You should not be relying on system installed interpreters, because you end up with an ancient, unmaintained version What? The reason to use the distro-prov

> You should not be relying on system installed interpreters, because you end up with an ancient, unmaintained version What? The reason to use the distro-provided python package is because it's maintained by someone and gets you security updates. If Apple is just shipping a version and never bug fixing that version, well Apple sucks. As it happens with Python, they do micro releases which other upstream projects might not. But, those releases might take longer than, say, a Linux distro might to get the fixes out to their users. So, while developing on an upstream codebase might be nice, what you need to focus on is the deployment lifecycle of your project.