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UPGRADING PYTHON ON RASPBIAN

To Upgrade Python, simply run

sudo bash

apt-get update

apt-get install -y build-essential tk-dev libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev libreadline6-dev libdb5.3-dev libgdbm-dev libsqlite3-dev libssl-dev libbz2-dev libexpat1-dev liblzma-dev zlib1g-dev libffi-dev tar wget vim

wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.8.0/Python-3.8.0.tgz

tar zxf Python-3.8.0.tgz && cd Python-3.8.0 && ./configure –enable-optimizations && make -j 4 && make altinstall

echo “alias python=/usr/local/bin/python3.8” >> ~/.bashrc

source ~/.bashrc

python -v

You should now be 3.8