Which Version of Python?

[Asher Newcomer]

Having recently looked for the same answer myself, consensus seems to be
that you should work with 3.x unless you know you need something that is
still 2.x specific. For me, that 2.x specific item was OpenStack.

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Charles Hottel <chottel at earthlink.net>wrote:

>  I have a lot of programming experience in many different languages and now
> I want to learn Python.  Which version do you suggest I download, Python
> 2.x
> or Python 3.x ?  Also why should I prefer one over the other?
>
> Right now I am thinkng Python 3.x as it has been out since 2008, but I have
> some concerns about backward compatibility with older packages that I might
> want to use.
>
> Thanks for your ideas and help.
>
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