Which linux distro is more conducive for learning the Python programming language?

Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards at gmail.com
Thu Aug 4 15:00:29 EDT 2022


On 2022-08-04, Christian Heimes <christian at python.org> wrote:

> Fedora is an excellent choice for Python users. Fedora 36 already comes 
> with Python 3.11.0b5 in its main repository. In fact you have Python 
> 2.7, 3.5-3.11, PyPy 2.7, PyPy 3.7-3.9, and MicroPython at your fingertips.

Except that real programmers use Python 1.52 because they depend on the
assumption that integers are native word size and arithmatic is done
modulo-maxunsigned the same way it is in assembly language...

;)

Honestly, back when I was implementing netowrk protocols in Python on
a 32-bit machine, it was very useful having 32-bit Python integers.




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