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From: "Charles Hottel" <chottel@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Which Version of Python?
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:49:14 -0400
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 I have a lot of programming experience in many different languages and now 
I want to learn Python.  Which version do you suggest I download, Python 2.x 
or Python 3.x ?  Also why should I prefer one over the other?

Right now I am thinkng Python 3.x as it has been out since 2008, but I have 
some concerns about backward compatibility with older packages that I might 
want to use.

Thanks for your ideas and help.