Hi, bit of an arcane request, but I'm looking and cannot find 'Idle' in any of Fedora's packages. Its got ipython, but that isn't the same thing. Anybody know of a Fedora package that would provide Idle for Python 3? (For Python 2 it comes standard, but it is supposedly available for Py 3 as well.)

Thank you!

Perhaps the best thing to do is somehow install python3 apart from the normal apps, so that I'm not tied to the distribution's peculiarities. Then I could perhaps install whatever I'd like to install. I'd rather just get a package with Idle already installed.

Found the solution here: https://ask.fedoraproject.org/questi...-in-fedora-16/

The solution was to import the Idle module. I created a file /usr/bin/idle3 and put the following into it:

#!/usr/bin/python3

from idlelib.PyShell import main
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()

Then I used chmod to add execution rights. I was able to run Idle in Python 3 from a standard user profile.

just be VERY VERY careful
do NOT replace the default version of python yum and parts of Gnome NEED that exact version

a second version can be installed side by side , but use caution