brew-installed Python not overriding system python

Question

I just used brew to install Python 3 on OS X. The python3 command now starts the interpreter using brew Python 3.6, but python still opens the interpr

Answer 1

One-liner to get homebrew python working:

zsh

echo -n 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/python/libexec/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc && source ~/.zshrc

bash

echo -n 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/python/libexec/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc

Explanation:
>> filename appends at the end of the file
source filename reloads the file