PythonT symlinks created by macOS installer, but PythonT framework not installed

[gernophil]

Bug report

Bug description:

With the macOS installer for Python 3.13 (here 3.13.3) The symlinks for PythonT are created in /usr/local/bin, but the binaries are not installed (the folder /Library/Frameworks/PythonT.framework does not exist after installing). This happened multiple times.

% ls -l /usr/local/bin | grep PythonT | awk '{print $9 $10 $11}'
python3.13t->../../../Library/Frameworks/PythonT.framework/Versions/3.13/bin/python3.13t
python3.13t-config->../../../Library/Frameworks/PythonT.framework/Versions/3.13/bin/python3.13t-config
python3.13t-intel64->../../../Library/Frameworks/PythonT.framework/Versions/3.13/bin/python3.13t-intel64
python3t->../../../Library/Frameworks/PythonT.framework/Versions/3.13/bin/python3t
python3t-config->../../../Library/Frameworks/PythonT.framework/Versions/3.13/bin/python3t-config
python3t-intel64->../../../Library/Frameworks/PythonT.framework/Versions/3.13/bin/python3t-intel64

% ls -l /Library/Frameworks/PythonT.framework
ls: /Library/Frameworks/PythonT.framework: No such file or directory

CPython versions tested on:

3.13

Operating systems tested on:

macOS

[ned-deily]

Just to be clear, the PythonT framework is not installed by default. You do need to select the option during every installation (initial or upgrade) as described here. The /usr/local/bin/ links might be left over from a previous installation where the free-threading option was selected. You can go back and redo the installation with the free-threading option selected. Could that explain what you experienced? [Update: see the next comment]

[ned-deily]

@gernophil, My apologies! I wrote too soon. The /usr/local/bin symlinks for the PythonT free-threading binaries are unconditionally created when the normal (Python) frameworks symlinks are created regardless of whether the free-threading option is selected. That was a simplifying choice for the initial 3.13 releases but the installation should be smarter about that. Thanks for bringing it up!

[gernophil]

Thanks for your reply. Actually, I was just posting an answer to your first post that they were created during the installation and are not leftovers. Thanks for double-checking :).