Is this a good time to start learning python?

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:57:21 -0300, <lbonafide at yahoo.com> escribió:
> On Apr 1, 12:47 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-... at yahoo.com.ar>
> wrote:

>> Please explain how the existence of Python 3.0 would break your  
>> production  
>> code.
>
> The existence of battery acid won't hurt me either, unless I come into
> contact with it.  If one eventually upgrades to 3.0 -- which is
> ostensibly the desired path -- their code could break and require
> fixing.

> Backward compatibility is important.   C++ could break all ties with C
> to "clean up" as well, but it would be a braindead move that would
> break existing code bases upon upgrade.

The C++ comitee has a different point of view than the Python developers,  
I think.
You don't have to upgrade if you don't want to. Nobody will come and  
magically erase your installed 2.X python. 2.X sources won't be wipped out  
 from the earth surface. Right now people is still using ten-years-old  
Python 1.5, and in ten years surely there will be people using Python 2.X  
too. (We still support things written in QuickBasic and Turbo Pascal 3.0  
for DOS)
There is an upgrade path, with intermediate versions, `from future  
import...`, automatic conversion tools (2to3), so you're not alone if you  
want to upgrade. The differences aren't so scaring after all, and they  
make 3.0 a much clean language.

-- 
Gabriel Genellina