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Re: Which Version of Python?

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On Tuesday, 11 September 2012 22:19:08 UTC+5:30, Charles Hottel  wrote:
> I have a lot of programming experience in many different languages and now 
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> I want to learn Python.  Which version do you suggest I download, Python 2.x 
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> or Python 3.x ?  Also why should I prefer one over the other?
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> Right now I am thinkng Python 3.x as it has been out since 2008, but I have 
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> some concerns about backward compatibility with older packages that I might 
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> want to use.
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> Thanks for your ideas and help.

Use Python 3 because most packages support Python 3. Python 2.7 has many features that Python 3 has so it will require minimal effort to write Python 2.x code.

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Which Version of Python? "Charles Hottel" <chottel@earthlink.net> - 2012-09-11 12:49 -0400
  Re: Which Version of Python? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-09-11 18:14 +0100
  Re: Which Version of Python? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-09-12 09:55 +1000
    Re: Which Version of Python? Peter <peter.milliken@gmail.com> - 2012-09-11 17:17 -0700
      Re: Which Version of Python? Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2012-09-11 20:07 -0500
      Re: Which Version of Python? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-09-12 02:11 +0000
        Re: Which Version of Python? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-09-12 02:15 +0000
  Re: Which Version of Python? Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2012-09-11 19:58 -0700
    Re: Which Version of Python? Jamie Paul Griffin <jamie@kode5.net> - 2012-09-12 13:12 +0100
  Re: Which Version of Python? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-09-12 07:30 +0100
    Re: Which Version of Python? alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2012-09-12 01:34 -0700
      Re: Which Version of Python? Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2012-09-12 01:41 -0700
        Re: Which Version of Python? Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2012-09-12 01:42 -0700
          RE: Which Version of Python? "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com> - 2012-09-13 23:30 +0000

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