I have the site-packages for Python 3.8 but not the interpreter

Question

I have this path in my mac: /usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages but I don't have /usr/local/bin/python3.8, which should be the interpreter.

Currently, my pip3 install command would install packages into /usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages, but I can't use python3.8 since I don't have the interpreter. I don't care which version of python I use. I just want to install packages into the directory that I can use.

So please help me with one of the questions:

1. Install Python 3.8 interpreter so I can use packages installed by pip3.

OR

2. Change the default pip3 installation path to other directory such as /usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages which I already have.

Answer 1

You could do one of them. Install python 3.8 should solve your problem

or

Have you tried to rename the python3.8 to python3.7? (Make sure you have python 3.7, by clicking "python3 --version" in terminal)

/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages -> /usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages