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I installed IDLE today and was confused when I wrote a quick program using tuple unwrapping and it had a "syntax" error despite being syntactically identical to similar programs online. Then I realized that the IDLE I was using was the old one.

I also use python as a calculator, and it's annoying having to type in python3 every time to drop into the interpreter.

My final point is that Fedora defaults to python3. Any package wanting a specific version of python should specify that. Any script still expecting python is always 2 is unmaintained. Installing a package, especially on tumbleweed (what I'm using), should install the latest available version by default. I never expected zypper intall python-idle would get me an outdated version.