$ python -bash: /usr/local/bin/python: No such file or directory

Something seems to go haywire with Homebrew 1.7.2 and MacOS 10.13.6.

Even after removing all python versions and reinstalling, python --version simply won't work.

Most have probably already tried these steps...

brew uninstall --ignore-dependencies python
brew uninstall --ignore-dependencies python2
brew uninstall --ignore-dependencies python3
brew install python
brew unlink python && brew link python
brew unlink python3 && brew link python3

At the end what worked for me was...

sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/python3 /usr/local/bin/python

And then again for pip...

sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/pip3 /usr/local/bin/pip

I've got no idea what happened here, but I tried reinstalling yesterday...reinstalling this way (seemingly what I already did) today worked:

How to fix broken python 2.7.11 after OSx updates