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a2warik
Asked: 2018-02-09 05:24:23 +0800 CST

How to install Python 3.6 IDLE, to work with Anaconda?

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I have installed Anaconda on Ubuntu 14.04. Anaconda installed Python3.6. I already had Python2.7 (Ubuntu default) and then Python3.4(I installed before Anaconda).

Although Anaconda have made importing packages much easier, I am not able to save codes in '.py' file. Anaconda has ipython (which looks like idle shell), jupyter (save in '.ipynb') but none offer to save it as scripts with '.py' extension. I want '.py' scripts which IDLE offered.

When I type in terminal

anand@anand-dell:~$ python
Python 3.6.3 |Anaconda, Inc.| (default, Oct 13 2017, 12:02:49) 
[GCC 7.2.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

but when i click Idle it defaults to 

Python 3.4.3 (default, Nov 28 2017, 16:41:13) 
[GCC 4.8.4] on linux
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.

How can i install python3.6 IDLE?

python anaconda

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    1. Download idlelib from cpython repo: https://minhaskamal.github.io/DownGit/#/home?url=https://github.com/python/cpython/tree/3.6/Lib/idlelib

    2. Extract idlelib to site-packages of anaconda.

    3. Create /usr/local/bin/idle with following content. (Remember to modify the first line to correct path of Anaconda python)

      #!/usr/local/lib/python3.6.2/bin/python3.6

from idlelib.pyshell import main
if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()
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  2. You need to activate conda environment first If you haven't created any environment try below command

    source activate base

    After this you will be able to launch idle in anaconda using command

    idle3

    and to deactivate environment use

    source deactivate

    or

    source deactivate base
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