I can't seem to figure out how to download the python shell

Question

So, I have a book about Python, and it wants me to download the python shell from this website: www.python.org/downloads/source

I can't figure out how. Can someone help?

Answer 1

Ubuntu 20.04 has Python 3 pre-installed.

To open the Python shell, from a terminal type:

python3

In other supported Ubuntu versions you can install Python from the repositories. I would suggest you do this rather than downloading installers from the Internet:

sudo apt install python3

Then run python3 to open the Python shell.