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I installed them both via apt-get install and they seem to be the same. If I start them they both open up a python shell

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idle3 is a package that depends on idle-python3.3 and Python 3.3 (in Quantal, probably 3.2 in older Ubuntus) amongst other things. From the description (from apt-cache show idle3):

This package is a dependency package, which depends on Debian's default Python 3 version (currently v3.3).

The package itself provides a /usr/bin/idle3 script which imports the library provided by the idle-python3.3 package. idle-python3.3 provides a version specific /usr/bin/idle-python3.3 script too.

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idle3 is a package that depends on idle-python3.5, python3 and python3-tk (module for portable GUI with Tkinter).

Here is a visualization of the dependency relationship between the differents packages.

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debtree idle3 --max-depth= 3 | dot -Tpng > idle3.png
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