Moving to Python 3.x

Jason C. McDonald "i n d e l i b l e b l u e p e n " at gmail.co
Sat May 9 15:29:22 EDT 2015


On 05/09/2015 11:30 AM, Antranig Vartanian wrote:
> Hay,
>
> I learned the basics of python using the book "Think Python"
> (http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/) which was good (IMHO), and
> it teaches in Python 2.7. Now I'm trying to write my first python+gtk
> program.
>
> anyways, my question will be, is it so necessary to move to python3.x
> ASAP? or Python2.7 will live for a while (2-3 years)?.
>
> and what do you advice a newbie programmer to do after learning the basics?
>
> Thanks all!
>
> --
> Antranig Vartanian
> http://antranig.pingvinashen.am/

I would strongly recommend writing your code to run on both Py2 and Py3. 
NINJA-IDE (an open source Python IDE) will lint your code so it'll run 
in both.

-- 
Jason C. McDonald (CodeMouse92)
[CEO, Lead Dev @ MousePaw Games]



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