Installing python

[Wildman]

On Mon, 05 Sep 2016 20:01:08 +0000, alister wrote:

> On Mon, 05 Sep 2016 12:46:58 -0700, emaraiza98 wrote:
> 
>> I installed pycharm for a computer science class I'm taking, and also
>> downloaded python 3.5.2. However, my computer for some reason won't use
>> 3.5.2 and my professor told me I needed to download an earlier version
>> to change the project interpreter. Whenever I try to use the earlier
>> version of python for pycharm it says that "the SDK" seems invalid. I
>> don't know what I'm doing wrong and was hoping someone would know what
>> to do. I need to have everything installed and running by Wednesday.
> 
> Are you by any chance still on windows XP?
> 
> You will need Python V3.4 or earlier.
> Alternatively upgrade your operating system.
> 
> Most if not all current Linux distributions should run without trouble on 
> your hardware.
> 
> They will probably have Python V2.7 as the system python but Python V3 
> should be available from the package manager & you will probably have a 
> much nicer experience than your windows class mates :-)

A good many Linux distros now have Python 2.7 and 3.x installed.
For Python 3.x you would use this hash-bang...

#!/usr/bin/env python3

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