当我在终端上调用python时，如何让python2.7成为默认选项？

Question

I recently installed the anaconda package while following a tutorial on data science from the guys at dataquest.io and after my install when I type "python" on the terminal I start Python 3 instead of 2.7.

How do I get "python" to open up python 2.7 again?

When I type

which python

and

which python3

I get the same path :

/Users/me/anaconda/bin/

Using Mac OS X El Capitan

Answer 1

I was playing around with this some time ago and seem to remember that in my PATH variable in Windows (assuming Windows) - the PATH variable will be read such that the first python key is taken as the default. So in Win 10, I pushed the one I want to the very top of the list and that worked for me.

Answer 2

Seems has been updated your default anaconda and python folder to python 3.

Easy way is to remove anaconda folder listed and download python 2.7.11 from anaconda and reinstall.

In case you have anaconda and anaconda3 in your system than you can update the path according with your needs: export PATH=$HOME/anaconda/bin:$PATH or export PATH=$HOME/anaconda3/bin:$PATH .

Hope it helps.

Answer 3

You can create a soft link from python to python2.7, namely:

$ pushd /bin && ln -s /bin/python python2.7

$ ls -ls `which python`
1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 Administrator None 13 Feb 25  2016 /bin/python -> python2.7