[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final
Mike Klaas
mike.klaas at gmail.com
Fri Dec 5 21:01:35 CET 2008
On 5-Dec-08, at 8:40 AM, A.M. Kuchling wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 05:40:46AM -0000, glyph at divmod.com wrote:
>> For most users, especially new users who have yet to be impressed
>> with
>> Python's power, 2.x is much better. It's not like "library
>> support" is
>> one small check-box on the language's feature sheet: most of the
>> attractive things about Python are libraries. Of course I am not
>> free
>
> Here I agree, sort of. Newbies may not understand what they're giving
> up in terms of libraries. (The 'sort of' is because, having learned
> 3.0, learning the changes for 2.6 is certainly much easier than
> learning a first programming language is.)
For possible insight, here is a current discussion on the topic:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7hlra/ask_progit_ive_got_the_itch_to_learn_python_since/
(note that these would be programmers interested in learning python,
not people trying to learn programming)
-Mike
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