Developing for Python (2.x or 3)?

[Ville M. Vainio]

"Paulo J. Matos" <pocmatos at gmail.com> writes:

> I am in the process of choosing which Python version for a brand new
> application. Van Rossum in an interview recently advised all new
> applications to use Python3 but I am afraid, most libraries (PyGtk,

I don't think he meant "all new" applications, bit rather when you are
about to embark on a new "thing" that will take a while to build (new
django? ;-).

> PyQt, Networking Libs, etc) won't follow suit to 3.0 and I will end
> up using a version of the language which can't connect to libraries
> because they haven't been ported yet.

I'd expect the libs to catch up quite quickly, bit I'd still not do an
end-user app in 3.0 yet. 2.6, using 3.0 comatibility features is your
best bet.