[Chicago] Python 3.5 in Ubuntu???

[Lewit, Douglas]

Hey guys,

I recently installed Python 3.5 Idle on my Mac.  Very simple installation.
The installation was not as easy or as painless on my Linux machine.  I
followed the directions, and Python 3.5 ( or at least the command to launch
it ) was successfully installed to /usr/bin.  BUT there were/are a couple
of little issues.  Initially I was not able to launch Terminal!  ( Not good
because I use Terminal quite a lot. )  I did some homework on the Ubuntu
Forum and learned that Ubuntu's Terminal requires Python 3.4 as a
dependency.  During the installation of Python 3.5, the symlink "python3"
got changed to point to Python 3.5.  So I had to go back to /usr/bin ( in
xterm, a Terminal alternative for just these emergencies ) and rename my
"python3" symlink so that it points to Python 3.4 and NOT Python 3.5.
With that done I was able to launch Terminal just like before.

BUT.... idle3.5 does not work.  The command is there in usr/bin, but it
fails with some warning message about how my version of Python is not
configured to work with Tk or Tkinter.   ( However, my other Python
versions do not have this problem, and for those versions IDLE runs without
a glitch. )  Does anyone have a solution for this?  How can I configure my
Python 3.5 to successfully import Tkinter and thus launch an IDLE shell?
Any advice is appreciated.  I'm running Ubuntu 15.04 LTS.  Thanks!!!

Best,

Douglas Lewit
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