Noob question on 2 vs 3 Python releases

Chris Rebert clp2 at rebertia.com
Sun Nov 14 04:11:20 EST 2010


On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Franck Ditter <franck at ditter.org> wrote:
> Pardon my noobness (?) but why is there a 2.x and 3.x development
> teams working concurrently in Python ? I hardly saw that in other
> languages.

You haven't heard of the infamous Perl 6?

> Which one should I choose to start with, to cope with
> the future ?

Read http://wiki.python.org/moin/Python2orPython3

> Isn't 3.x supposed to extend 2.y ?

Not just extend. It also makes some *backwards-incompatible* removals
and revisions, hence the different major version number.

Cheers,
Chris
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