Mac using default Python despite Anaconda install

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intl picture intl · Apr 1, 2014 · Viewed 56.4k times · Source

I am running Mac 10.9 Mavericks and have installed Anaconda. However, despite that, when I access python via terminal, I still get the default Apple version: 

Python 2.7.5 (default, Sep  2 2013, 05:24:04) 
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 5.0 (clang-500.0.68)] on darwin

My .bash_profile is this:

export PATH="$HOME/anaconda/bin:$PATH"

MONGO_PATH=/usr/local/mongodb/bin
SQL_PATH=/usr/local/mysql

export PATH="/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH"

Is there anything I can do to use the Anaconda version of Python? At a loss at the moment.

Thank you

Answer

Heap picture Heap · Apr 1, 2014

The first matching executable is the one that is run. From what I can gather you are concatenating your PATH variable in such a way that:

/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin

comes before:

$HOME/anaconda/bin

So make sure that the anaconda directory is the first one, meaning that it will have precedence:

export PATH="$HOME/anaconda/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH"

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