Installing Python with Homebrew may have some quirks. Keep reading to see how to do it the right way.
Let's start by updating Homebrew repository
brew update
then we install Python (2.7 in my case)
brew install python
Now, we should switch to PIP as advised via this poster
Unfortunately, Homebrew installer puts easy_install package in the following directory
/usr/local/share/python/easy_install
Presumably, you have only /usr/local/bin in your PATH. In such case executing easy_install will take the Python binary that is bundled with OSX. We must change it to keep things fine and dandy on your system.
Let’s add /usr/local/share/python/easy_install to the PATH. Next, check if it’s pointing to the valid file with which command
which easy_install # => /usr/local/share/python/easy_install
Now, we can finally install PIP.
easy_install pip
Let’s try and install a package, e.g. psutil
pip install psutil
and import it inside Python REPL.
$ python
import psutil
It works!