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Which IDLE package I should install from Software Center in Ubuntu assuming I want to program in Python 3?

Kulfy
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You can install IDLE for Python 3 by installing the idle3 package in the official Ubuntu repositories:

sudo apt-get install idle3

For Python 2, replace idle3 with idle.

edwinksl
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    When I ran the code and installed `idle3`, it also installed `idle-python3.4` alongside. I assume it is not `idle3` itself that actually runs when I run it on command terminal but rather `idle-python3.4`. `idle3` itself is just pointing at it. If a new version (say `idle-python3.5`) is released, it downloads that and `idle3` starts to point at that from that moment on as far as I understand. Is this correct? – SarpSTA Jun 25 '17 at 18:45
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    @SarpSTA Yeah I would expect that to happen automatically. – edwinksl Jun 25 '17 at 19:00
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Use this package. Any of IDLE3 packages are fine. If you install IDLE3 it will get updated when they release a new version of IDLE3. But if you install IDLE(using Python-3.4), it won't get updated when IDLE for 3.5 is available.

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