How To Set Python Executable Path In Idle?

I've been using Python only a couple years, primarily through Jupyter notebooks and Spyder, which came with Anaconda. I'm starting to use IDLE some and have problems with loading p

Solution 1:

IDLE is run by whatever python you explicitly or implicitly ask to run IDLE. The icon installed by the python.org installer at some point executes something like

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/bin/python3.7 -m idlelib

In Terminal, you could execute

/Users/fishbacp/anaconda3/bin/python -m idlelib

However, there might be issues with the version of tcl/tk associated with that python, if different, especially on Catalina. See IDLE's Help => About IDLE for the tk x.y.z version.

You may be better off with 3.8.2 (or soon, 3.8.3).