How to use Python 3 in Spyder 3?

Question

I had Spyder2 running Python 2.7 on Ubuntu 16.04. I installed Spyder3 via

sudo apt-get install spyder3

but Spyder3 is also running Python 2.7.

I even upgraded spyder via pip

sudo pip install spyder --upgrade

but still Spyder3 is based on Python 2.7.

Solution

The right way to get it aught to have been:

sudo pip3 install spyder

And see this:

sudo apt install spyder3

also works. Perhaps you need to uninstall spyder2, then install spyder3

Comments

[Googlebot]

no, I was installing pip3 and then pip3 install spyder. Still, Spyder3 is running Python 2.7. I will uninstall Spyder2.

[George Udosen]

Please run which python3

[Googlebot]

/usr/bin/python3

[Googlebot]

I uninstalled both Spyder and Spyder3 via apt-get and installed via pip3 but still, the python is 2.7.

[George Udosen]

Did you do sudo apt purge spyder? Use this to purge all former configurations.