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Jan 27 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
HEY.

#MacAdmins and Mac developers

THIS IS IMPORTANT

**REMOVED**

developer.apple.com/documentation/…
ALSO:

macOS *does NOT* ship with python 3

It ships with /usr/bin/python3 - which is a stub - that the first time you run it, it will *GUI prompt* you to install Xcode or Developer Tools

Bring. Your. Own. Python 3. For. Apps. Or. IT.
Are you now looking for a python distro to use?

python.org has universal installers as of 3.9.2+ at python.org/downloads/maco…

I can *also* recommend this project - built for Mac admins - by @gregneagle and other Mac admins:

github.com/gregneagle/rel…
ALSO ALSO -

If you're thinking "well, I've seen tricks for automating the install of CLI tools, I could use that + /usr/bin/python3" - if the reason you want python is pyobjc -

That was only shipped with the System python2 install. Dev tools / Xcode python3 doesn't have it.
ALSO A GREAT SUGGESTION:

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Oct 17, 2018
If you want to learn about all the gotchas & corners for MDM-based macOS major upgrades, definitely read @wikiwalk's article

Things that need radars:
- Requires DEP, UAMDM doesn't work
- UX sucks (2 minutes of nothing then reboot?)
- Gated by Apple pushing this notifier
etc.
Also:
- device must be plugged in

Definitely reach out to your MDM vendor and ask about support for this.

There's major MDM protocol handholding song-and-dance they'll need to implement for this to even remotely work.
And your clients will need to be receiving ConfigData updates to get that notification bundle that unlocks all this. If you're doing "assisted" updates with managed Software Update settings and those are disabled, your clients will never see the OS upgrade as available.
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Apr 26, 2018
As a reminder to anyone out there that's dealing with the TLS 1.2 cutover on python's pypi on macOS 10.12: You may still get stung by it if you end up unfortunately needing to deal with setuptools / easy_install packages that you can't get through pip.
Fortunately, @clburlison took work that I did (github.com/pudquick/tlsssl) and improved upon the build process: github.com/clburlison/ven…

This results in a "tlsssl-1.1.0.pkg" package you can install on 10.12 that will hotfix ssl to support TLS 1.1/1.2 in most situations.
Basic usage to get there on 10.12:
- download repo
- cd into code/openssl and run: sudo /usr/bin/python setup.py -vv -p -b -i
- cd into code/tlsssl and run: /usr/bin/python setup.py -vv -b -p

Poof, you have a tlsssl-1.1.0.pkg
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