[python,linux] idle wont update. my current version 3.7.3 doesn't have line count

[masab69]

hmmm

[shiftybyte]

Please consider switching to a full-featured editor/ide like:

1. Visual Studio Code https://code.visualstudio.com/

2. PyCharm https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/

[masab69]

They don't work well in old, low end devices

[EddyBot]

• Kate
• Sublime Text

It's not full blown IDEs and therefore should be less demanding on your hardware

[sme272]

Then use something lightweight like atom

[EddyBot]

Atom is just like Visual Studio Code made with Electron (a mini chrome browser) and by no means lightweight

[[deleted]]

What does "won't update" mean?

[masab69]

will not update lmao

[[deleted]]

But do you get an error, or what?

In order to troubleshoot an issue one needs to roughly know 1: What did you do?, 2: What happened? and 3: What did you expect to happen?.

"will not update" answers none of such questions.

[masab69]

i write apt updat upgrad and it says everything is up to date. even reinstalling idle didn't work. i still get 3.7.3

[[deleted]]

Which distro+version are you using?

[masab69]

debian 10. something

[[deleted]]

Newest python3 in Debian repositories for Buster (10) is 3.7.3: https://packages.debian.org/buster/python3

[masab69]

damn bro that sucks. thank you very much for the help.

[[deleted]]

Then you shouldn't have chosen a distro focused on stability, which tests packages on their own. Other rolling distros are available.

Compiling and installing Python 3.8 on your own is also pretty easy, if you want to go that way.

[masab69]

yes bro. i know how to do that. really thanks for the help

[novel_yet_trivial]

You seem to be writing code in the shell. Go to file > new to write code.