macopen spotlight (command-spacebarenter idle in the search field select the idle app if you have linuxthe approach depends on the installation in ubuntuyou should find idle in the programming section of the applications menu you are better starting idle from terminalwith the current directory being your python folder you may need special name set up to distinguish idle for versions and for instance idle for version we will discuss later that if you want to edit filesthis is not the best way to start idlesince the associated folder is not the one you wantbut it works for now windows in idle idle has several parts you may choose to displayeach with its own window depending on the configurationidle can start up showing either of two windowsan edit window or python shell window you are likely to first see an edit windowwhose top left corner looks something like in windowsfor more on the edit windowsee the idle editor and execution (page if you see this edit window with its run menu on topgo to the run menu and choose python shell to open python shell window for now then you may close the edit window for now we will just be using the python shell either initiallyor after explicitly opening ityou should now see the python shell windowwith menu like the followingthough the text may be slightly differentin the shell the last line should look like beginning with python