[Tutor] Which version of python should i use?

Albert-Jan Roskam fomcl at yahoo.com
Mon May 20 15:22:48 CEST 2013



>On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Amal Thomas <amalthomas111 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am a beginner. I am using a unix sytem (ubuntu 12.10). Python 2.7.3  is
>> installed in my system. I found out that Python has version upto 3.3.2.
>> Should I update my python version?
>
>Ubuntu 12.10 should have 3.2.3 installed (the python3 package). The
>command is "python3". There's also a python3.3 package, currently at
>version 3.30. The command is "python3.3":

Nice, I never knew that this was already installed. To what extent is Ubuntu (I use Mint, but I think that's almost the same) already using Python 3.2 internally? I tried "sudo updatedb; locate python3". But probably I should scan inside files to see where python3 is used. 


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