'pip
is a packager for the python world – you should only ever be able to install python-things with it; homebrew
is a package manager targetted at OSX; it doesn’t impose any restrictions onto what software you can install with it – since python is a subset of software.brew
will install them into /usr/local/
;pip
will fetch packages from the Python Package Index, and it will install them in a place where your python interpreter will find them: either into your home directory (e.g. ~/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/
) or in some global search-path of your python interpreter (e.g. /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/
)”