google cloud compute engine change to python 3.6

Question

I am a running a python script where I train CNN on my laptop and now want to run it on google cloud. The script imports tensorflow and keras, for which I need Python 3.6

Answer 1

You can install it by using:

sudo apt-get -y -qq install python3

Check this using:

python3 --version

Answer 2

I had the same problem. By preference, I cd'ed into /tmp: cd /tmp, but from there, I followed these steps in the VM terminal:

1. wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.6.3/Python-3.6.3.tgz
2. tar -xvf Python-3.6.3.tgz
3. cd Python-3.6.3
4. ./configure
5. sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev
6. sudo make
7. sudo make install
8. python3 -V

If it works, the last one should print out: Python 3.6.3

If it doesn't work, then you have something different about your environment that is preventing it. This is starting from a clean VM environment. But hopefully this works out for you!