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attempting to learn python on ubuntu
Best Practice for Using Python on Linux (Ubuntu or Mint)
How to install Python on Ubuntu?
How to run Python in the terminal on Ubuntu?
How to run code on Ubuntu?
How to run Python3 in the terminal?
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To begin, open a console window.
To install Python 3:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install python3.3
To install IDLE:
sudo apt-get install idle3
Keep in mind that you can also open a terminal window and simply type python to be thrown into a python console. Python 3 may need to be forced with python3 if apt as decided not to overwrite your system's default 2.7.5 install.
There are also other environments similar to IDLE that can be a lot nicer to use. One such example is a plugin for the Sublime Text text editor called SublimeREPL (A REPL is a Read Evaluate Print Loop - essentially the interactive python prompt). These REPLs are available for many interpreted languages and can be very handy to have close by when you're writing code.
Here's what it looks like on my OSX install:

Upgrading Python (or any package)
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade python
Using Python
$ python
Python 2.7.4 (default, Sep 26 2013, 03:20:26)
[GCC 4.7.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> print "bacon"
bacon
>>>
Any tutorials anyone can point me to that will help me learn python on Ubuntu, first time learning a programming language. Interested in python/linux as a lot employers see this as a good foundation so I thought 2 birds 1 stone, I will be attempting a entry level role in 6 months time, or September24. Thank you and happy learning
So I have usually just aliased python3 to python in Linux (I use Mint) and never really run into any issues. Was wondering though what others do. Is it best practice to use virtual environments like pyenv or anaconda? How do you all develop with Python on Linux?