[Tutor] How to work with a later version of Python

[Neveills, Sarah]

All,

My teacher said we would encounter issues completing our homework if we are
running a version past 3.6.

Apparently the files, functions, and the commands listed in our Project
book were written for 3.6 and they throw errors on a newer version.

I am a novice and this is my first class regarding machine learning.

Is there a website to easily get the new functions and files?

I will email back the errors I get and hopefully someone can guide me in
the right direction for trouble-shooting.

Sarah

On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 4:37 AM Michael Deslippe <1611kjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> The actual runtimes each have a unique name and neither has version
> dependencies in general distributions. What that means python 3.8.3 will
> run by starting application python383 and python 3.6 will run on python36.
> You’ll find both if you search with application launcher. I run the latest
> stable version and the latest beta version at the same time and it works
> fine. If you are certain there’s a reason to only run 3.6, which subversion
> do you require for 3.6? There are actually 12 subversions from 3.6.0 to
> 3.6.12. They are all 3.6, but different subversions moving towards the next
> release. Which can you se?
>
>
>
> —-Mike
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> Subject: Re: [Tutor] How to work with a later version of Python
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> On 30/09/2020 23:58, Neveills, Sarah wrote:
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>
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> > I have version 3.8.3 of Python installed on my MAC OS.
>
> >
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> > The homework I need to do will only work with version 3.6 (and no later
> or
>
> > earlier).
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>
>
> That's very unlikely. Python versions are intended to be backwardly
>
> compatible so any 3.6 code should work on 3.8. It would need to be
>
> deliberately written to prevent forward compatibility which would be
>
> very odd, or it would need to use some very specialized libraries.
>
>
>
> Have you tried it?
>
>
>
> > I have downloaded Python 3.6, but how do I work in version 3.6
>
> > instead of 3.8.3?
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>
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> At the simplest level you can simply call the python3.6
>
> interpreter explicitly.
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>
>
> The best solution would be to create a virtual environment.
>
> If you do a search for python virtual environment you should
>
> find a wealth of material.
>
>
>
> > I need to figure out how to switch between editions...please advise.
>
>
>
> I'd check first that your code really won't work in 3.8.
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>
>
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