On Thu, 2018-02-01 at 15:41 -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote: > thank you for that ! I think building python from source is a > nightmare. Same with PHP7.x these days. I don't know about Python 3 since I've never tried it, but it's very simple to build Python 2.7 from source. I do it on both GNU/Linux and MacOS with very little trouble.