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Subject: 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.