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I reinstalled python 2.7.16 as part of the troubleshooting I was doing initially when this issue started but other than that I haven't installed anything else recently. Is there any way to make sure? I remember using 'pip' for something a long while ago.
In regards to non standard app installs, I had to install SoftRAID by disabling the SIP to update the driver in Catalina. Nothing else besides that.

How did you reinstall 2.7.16? It's part of the standard OS install, so it would have been really difficult to uninstall it in the first place.

Didn't really uninstall it since I couldn't find it. So assuming it had somehow been deleted or wasn't present in the latest OS, I reinstalled it from https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-2716/

Didn't really uninstall it since I couldn't find it. So assuming it had somehow been deleted or wasn't present in the latest OS, I reinstalled it from https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-2716/

If you do 'which python' in Terminal, what does it give you?

Python is still in Catalina. I did a fresh install in a VM the other day to check. So now I think you've got the classic multiple install problem that's messing you up.

If you do 'which python' in Terminal, what does it give you?

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python

So now I think you've got the classic multiple install problem that's messing you up.

Had this issue before I installed the version from the website. In fact the only reason I installed another version is to troubleshoot this issue. Is there any way to get rid of the new install?

If you do 'which python' in Terminal, what does it give you?

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python

So now I think you've got the classic multiple install problem that's messing you up.

Had this issue before I installed the version from the website. In fact the only reason I installed another version is to troubleshoot this issue. Is there any way to get rid of the new install?

Yeah, the default version of Python is /usr/bin/python. /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/ only has Python 3.7 in it (in a clean Catalina install).

Check the docs on the site you downloaded it from.

Uninstalled downloaded python. So now 'which python' gives me:

iMac:~ home$ which python
/usr/bin/python

Uninstalled downloaded python. So now 'which python' gives me:

iMac:~ home$ which python
/usr/bin/python

That's the correct location. Running it should give you:

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jkeenan@Kraken ~ % python

WARNING: Python 2.7 is not recommended.
This version is included in macOS for compatibility with legacy software.
Future versions of macOS will not include Python 2.7.
Instead, it is recommended that you transition to using 'python3' from within Terminal.

Python 2.7.16 (default, Aug 24 2019, 18:37:03)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 11.0.0 (clang-1100.0.32.4) (-macos10.15-objc-s on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>


Perfect, thanks. Thats what I get now:

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iMac:~ home$ python

WARNING: Python 2.7 is not recommended.
This version is included in macOS for compatibility with legacy software.
Future versions of macOS will not include Python 2.7.
Instead, it is recommended that you transition to using 'python3' from within Terminal.

Python 2.7.16 (default, Aug 24 2019, 18:37:03)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 11.0.0 (clang-1100.0.32.4) (-macos10.15-objc-s on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>


Restarted the Mac hoping....but no luck...still the same story...at least I got rid of the other version

[matt (support)]

I'm going to send you an email off the forum so we can debug into this.