[Tutor] Python 2 or 3?

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Jun 24 01:49:03 CEST 2013


On 17/06/2013 22:06, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> Dear Pythoners,
> Sorry I am completely new to this but so far as I can see there are two
> versions of Python, version 2 (which is more established and has much
> more support) and version 3 which is relatively new.
> As a beginner, which of the versions (2 or 3) would it be advisable to
> start with first?
> I suspect version 2, but I would like to hear that from experienced
> Python users.
> Many thanks,
> Andy Cooper
>

Version 3 unless you must use a library that's not yet ported, as it 
saves you porting your code at a later date.

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Mark Lawrence



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