SyntaxError on progress module

[Cecil Westerhof]

Op Wednesday 27 May 2015 15:44 CEST schreef Mark Lawrence:

> On 27/05/2015 09:42, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>> Op Wednesday 27 May 2015 09:30 CEST schreef alb:
>>
>>> But here I have another question, as a python novice is there
>>> really any reason for me to use any particular version of Python?
>>>
>>> Should I start directly with the newest? What about 2.7?
>>
>> In principal you should use the ‘latest’ 3. The only problem is
>> that a lot of libraries are not converted to 3 yet. If you need one
>> of those, then you have ‘no choice’ and have to use 2.7. But I
>> would recommend to use ‘from __future__' to make the 2.7 code as
>> much as possible 3 compliant.
>>
>
> Please define "a lot" whilst bearing in mind green against red here
> https://python3wos.appspot.com/

I just started using Python again and the first ‘real’ program I wrote
I had to write with Python 2 because the needed library (libturpial,
that is not listed on your link) works only with Python 2. A short
search about which of the two to use gives similar answers to mine.
And as far as I can see in my neighbourhood Python 2 is almost
exclusively used because used libraries are only available in Python
2.

This is not a scientifically substantiated argument, but for me good
enough to use a lot.

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Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
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