If you have installed Python on your macOS using brew and trying to locate its installed location you can make use of the following command,
mac % brew list python@3.9
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.6/bin/2to3
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.6/bin/2to3-3.9
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.6/bin/idle3
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.6/bin/idle3.9
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.6/bin/pip3
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.6/bin/pip3.9
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.6/bin/pydoc3
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.6/bin/pydoc3.9
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.6/bin/python3
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.6/bin/python3-config
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.6/bin/python3.9
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.6/bin/python3.9-config
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.6/bin/wheel3
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.6/Frameworks/Python.framework/ (3026 files)
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.6/IDLE 3.app/Contents/ (8 files)
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.6/lib/pkgconfig/ (4 files)
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.6/libexec/bin/ (6 files)
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.6/libexec/wheel-0.36.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.6/Python Launcher 3.app/Contents/ (16 files)
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.6/share/man/ (2 files)
Also when you install python you will get info about where Python got installed.
Sample logs of installing Python 3.9Python has been installed as /opt/homebrew/bin/python3
Unversioned symlinks `python`, `python-config`, `pip` etc. pointing to
`python3`, `python3-config`, `pip3` etc., respectively, have been installed into
/opt/homebrew/opt/python@3.9/libexec/bin
You can install Python packages with
pip3 install <package>
They will install into the site-package directory
/opt/homebrew/lib/python3.9/site-packages
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