How to install bpython for python3 on OSX?

Question

How can I install bpython, or another good python shell, on OSX 10.6, for python 3?

Calling easy_install bpython installed it for python 2.6 (same with ipython). Nor brew nor macports seem to even realise python 3 exists. Directly trying ipython's egg specific for python 3 gave all sort of errors.

Answer 1

Generally, just running easy_install uses Python 2. If you have the Python 3 version of distribute installed, you can run easy_install3 bpython to install bpython into Python 3. If not, download and install it so you can use easy_install with Python 3 whenever you need it.

Alternatively, just download the bpython tarball, extract it, and then run sudo python3 setup.py in the extracted directory to install it.

IPython for Python 3 is not available through easy_install/pip so you have to download its tarball and install it the same way as bpython.