Homebrew install python release candidate version

Question

On mac os, I just updated to Maverick and now when I try to run a script with zbar for example, I get an error : Segmentation fault: 11

I see on python.org :

"Python 2.7.6 release candidate 1 was released on October 26, 2013. This is a 2.7 series bugfix release. Most importantly, it resolves an issue that caused the interactive prompt to crash on OS X 10.9. It also includes numerous bugfixes over 2.7.5."

Ok Awesome ! But.. I installed python with homebrew and when i do brew install python its already up to date (2.7.5). How can I fix that ?

(To be honest I tried to download the .dmg fron python.org and then installed it and that becomes a mess mixing versions... So I cleaned everything and now I would like to know what is the real thing to do.)

Answer 1

At the time you wrote the question, Python 2.7.6 was not yet released. The text you quoted talks about a release candidate, which is not the final release. In the meantime, 2.7.6 has been released (today, at the time I write this), but Homebrew has not packaged it yet. Just give it some time.

It's unlikely that your crash has to do with this, though. At least you haven't shown any information to support this suspicion. Most people have not had problems with homebrewed Python after upgrading to Mavericks.