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Assumes you have brew installed.

Install pyenv.

brew install pyenv

Check what versions of python are available.

pyenv install --list

Install a version.

pyenv install 3.9.1

If you run into some error such as "xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun" then you may need to install xcode.

xcode-select --install

Once pyenv has installed python we can then use it to set our global version.

pyenv global 3.9.1

# and verify it worked
pyenv version

3.9.1 (set by /Users/jjack/.pyenv/version)
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