Where is IDLE (18.04)

My understanding was that IDLE comes built in with Python, which is installed with Ubuntu. I can't find IDLE in Applications. I can't find it to install in Ubuntu Software. Where is it? Not interested in workarounds. Want to know why it isn't there. Ubuntu 18.04

2 Answers

Did you try installing it from the command line directly, as this other almost identical question/answer pair instruct you on how to do?

You can install IDLE for Python 3 with

sudo apt install idle

... or with ...

sudo apt install idle3

There is no Python2 version of IDLE in Ubuntu 18.04, however.

Ubuntu doesn't bundle IDLE. It's not installed by default in Ubuntu, but it is installed in other linux distributions. It's an optional part of Python.

As other stated it out, you can quickly install it with

sudo apt install idle

It is only available for Python 3.