# os x yosimite, pip tries to make ansible run in python3

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/os-x-yosimite-pip-tries-to-make-ansible-run-in-python3/19167>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [September 2, 2015, 12:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/os-x-yosimite-pip-tries-to-make-ansible-run-in-python3/19167 "2015-09-02T12:37:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![pixel\_fairy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6f9a4e/32.png) [@pixel\_fairy](https://forum.ansible.com/u/pixel_fairy)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 12:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/os-x-yosimite-pip-tries-to-make-ansible-run-in-python3/19167/1 "2015-09-02T12:37:20Z")

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bonechar:~# pip install ansible  
Collecting ansible  
Downloading ansible-1.9.2.tar.gz (927kB)  
100% |████████████████████████████████| 929kB 641kB/s  
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): paramiko in /usr/local/lib/python3.4/site-packages (from ansible)  
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): jinja2 in /usr/local/lib/python3.4/site-packages (from ansible)  
…  
bonechar:~ pixel$ which ansible  
/usr/local/bin/ansible  
bonechar:~ pixel$ ansible-vault edit --help  
File “/usr/local/bin/ansible-vault”, line 148  
print “Decryption successful”  
^  
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to ‘print’  
bonechar:~ pixel$ ansible --version  
File “/usr/local/bin/ansible”, line 203  
except errors.AnsibleError, e:  
^  
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

the one from git runs fines, but im kinda iffy about a dev version. maybe i should check out stable?

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 12:50pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/os-x-yosimite-pip-tries-to-make-ansible-run-in-python3/19167/2 "2015-09-02T12:50:12Z")

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you might be using pip3 and need pip2.

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**Author:** ![pixel\_fairy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6f9a4e/32.png) [@pixel\_fairy](https://forum.ansible.com/u/pixel_fairy)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 12:54pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/os-x-yosimite-pip-tries-to-make-ansible-run-in-python3/19167/3 "2015-09-02T12:54:38Z")

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yup, the default pip was 3. dont know how that changed.

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**Author:** ![Greg\_DeKoenigsberg1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/838e76/32.png) [@Greg\_DeKoenigsberg1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Greg_DeKoenigsberg1)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 12:55pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/os-x-yosimite-pip-tries-to-make-ansible-run-in-python3/19167/4 "2015-09-02T12:55:26Z")

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May be worth a new note in our docs.