When I was first starting out my programming adventures with Python, someone told me that I should work with Python 3 instead of 2 because that's what will be maintained in the future (this was some 8 years ago). I decided to listen and when I got home I opened up my terminal, wrote:

sudo apt-get remove python

Followed by

sudo apt-get install python3

Only to be suddenly greeted with:

sudo: command not found

[–] madeindjs@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I remember I did the same mistakes few years ago. If I'm not mistaken, there is a big warning message when you try to remove Python, no?

[–] UnbeatenDeployGoofy@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In my days of learning Python, I was told to use pyenv and set environments based on the projects rather than making changes to the system. Maybe there are better options nowadays.

[–] hinterlufer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Anaconda for example

[–] FederalAlienSmuggler@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Pyenv is still a good option