This package will install Python $FULL_VERSION for macOS $MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET for the following architecture(s): $ARCHITECTURES.

NOTE: This is a beta preview of Python 3.12.0, the next feature release of Python 3.  It is not intended for production use.

Certificate verification and OpenSSL

This package includes its own private copy of OpenSSL 1.1.1.   The trust certificates in system and user keychains managed by the Keychain Access application and the security command line utility are not used as defaults by the Python ssl module.  A sample command script is included in /Applications/Python 3.11 to install a curated bundle of default root certificates from the third-party certifi package (https://pypi.org/project/certifi/).  Double-click on Install Certificates to run it.

The bundled pip has its own default certificate store for verifying download connections.

Install Options

You can control some aspects of what is installed by this package. To see the options, click on the Customize button in the Installation Type step of the macOS installer app.  Click on a package name in the list shown to see more information about that option,
  
Using IDLE or other Tk applications 

This package includes its own private version of Tcl/Tk 8.6. It does not use any system-supplied or third-party supplied versions of Tcl/Tk.

Due to new security checks on macOS 10.15 Catalina, when launching IDLE macOS may open a window with a message "Python" would like to access files in your Documents folder.  This is normal as IDLE uses your Documents folder as its default when opening and saving files; you can still choose other locations in the Open and Save file dialog windows.  Click on the OK button to proceed.

Apple Silicon Mac support

On Apple Silicon Macs, it is possible to run Python either with native ARM64 code or under Intel 64 emulation using Rosetta2. This option might be useful for testing or if binary wheels are not yet available with native ARM64 binaries.  To  easily force Python to run in emulation mode, invoke it from a command line shell with the python3-intel64 command instead of just python3.

Other changes

For other changes in this release, see the What's new section in the Documentation Set for this release and its Release Notes link at https://www.python.org/downloads/.