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Are you sure? My macOS 12.4 has a /usr/bin/python3 that is happy to accept "-m -m http.server 8080"

• ihuman 4y ago
  That's from the Xcode developer tools, not macOS itself. When you try to run that command after a fresh macOS installation, it tells you to install the Xcode dev tools.
  • spurgu 4y ago
    Wow that sucks if true. Python is such a great introduction to programming and is a great tool to have installed by default on Linux and Mac.... is there any logical reason why it's being removed?
    • yreg 4y ago
      I don't like it either, but my guess is they consider it irelevant. Their software doesn't depend on it, vast majority of their users won't use it and those who want to can easily install it themselves. I remember times when each mac came with not just Python, but also Java and Adobe Flash Player pre-installed. Of course I'm not saying they should do that again, but there was something wonderfull about powering it on and being able to e.g. play YouTube videos right away instead of having to set everything up like on a PC.
    • sgjohnson 4y ago
      > is there any logical reason why it's being removed? Yes. The versions they shipped with macOS were typically outdated, and shipping them with macOS would basically mean that they only get updated with macOS, so a lot of people were/are running old and vulnerable versions of those tools, and they decided to scrap them altogether.