python@3.15

Deprecation date: 2031-11-01

Disable date: 2032-11-01

Install command:
brew install python@3.15

Also known as: python, python3, python@3

Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language

https://www.python.org/

License: Python-2.0

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/python@3.15.json

Formula code: python@3.15.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon
golden gate ✅
tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 3.15.2

Other versions:

python@3.14 3.14.10 Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language
python@3.13 3.13.18 Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language
python@3.12 3.12.16 Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language
python@3.11 3.11.18 Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language
python@3.10 3.10.22 Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language
python@3.9 3.9.25 Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language

Depends on:

ca-certificates 2026-10-20 Mozilla CA certificate store
mpdecimal 4.0.1 Library for decimal floating point arithmetic
openssl@4 4.1.0 Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit
sqlite 3.54.1 Command-line interface for SQLite
xz 5.8.4 General-purpose data compression with high compression ratio
zstd 1.5.7 Zstandard is a real-time compression algorithm

Depends on when building from source:

pkgconf 3.0.10 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit

Uses from macOS: bzip2, expat (since macOS Sequoia), libedit, libffi, ncurses

Binaries: idle3, idle3.15, pip3, pip3.15, pydoc3, pydoc3.15, python3, python3-config, python3.15, python3.15-config

Python is installed as
    $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/bin/python3

Unversioned symlinks `python`, `python-config`, `pip` etc. pointing to
`python3`, `python3-config`, `pip3` etc., respectively, are installed into
    $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/opt/python@3.15/libexec/bin

`idle3.15` requires tkinter, which is available separately:
    brew install python-tk@3.15

`dbm.gnu` is available separately:
    brew install python-gdbm@3.15

For more information about Homebrew and Python, see: https://docs.brew.sh/Homebrew-and-Python

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