Python 3 is killing Python

[Johannes Bauer]

On 31.05.2014 12:07, Steve Hayes wrote:

> So I bought this book, and decided that whatever version of Python it deals
> with, that's the one I will download and use.

This sounds like remarkably bad advice. That's like saying "I bought a
can of motor oil in my department store and whatever engine that is good
for that's the car that I'll buy and put into!"

> The book is:
> 
> Cunningham, Katie. 2014. Teach yourself Python in 24 hours.
>                Indianapolis: Sams.
>                ISBN: 978-0-672-33687-4
>                    For Python 2.7.5
> 
> I'll leave Python 3.2 on my computer, but 2.7.5 will be the one I'm installing
> now. Even if I could *find* a book that deals with Python 3.x, couldn't afford
> to but yet another Python book. 

Lucky for you 2.7.5 isn't all that different from Py3 and most of it
will apply. You'll be missing out on a bunch of cool features (arbitrary
precision ints, int division operator, real Unicode support) but that's
no big deal.

Regards,
Johannes

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