I am running into the same problem and cannot find a solution. This is what I see (note the developer command line tools are installed) $ python xcode-select: Failed to locate 'python', requesting installation of command line developer tools. $ python3 Python 3.8.9 (default, Jul 19 2021, 09:37:32) [Clang 13.0.0 (clang-1300.0.27.3)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> $ ln -s /usr/bin/python3 /usr/local/bin/python $ which python /usr/local/bin/python $ python xcode-select: Failed to locate 'python', requesting installation of command line developer tools. $ /usr/local/bin/python xcode-select: Failed to locate 'python', requesting installation of command line developer tools. $ /usr/bin/env python xcode-select: Failed to locate 'python', requesting installation of command line developer tools. If I put another python on my PATH (outside of /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin) it seems to work fine. Eg, $ ln -s /usr/bin/python3 /some/other/path/python $ export PATH=/some/other/path:$PATH $ which python /some/other/path/python $ python Python 3.8.9 (default, Jul 19 2021, 09:37:32) [Clang 13.0.0 (clang-1300.0.27.3)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> However, this is not a tenable solution and I have hundreds of scripts that rely on #!/usr/bin/env python. Is there a way to get xcode-select to stop prompting me to install command line tools for python?