Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.013 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.97; '*S*': 0.00; 'english.': 0.04; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.04; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'steve': 0.09; 'lawrence': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'martin': 0.11; 'python': 0.11; '2.7': 0.14; 'language.': 0.14; 'books': 0.15; 'hayes': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; ':-)': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; '>>>': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'of.': 0.24; 'sorry,': 0.24; 'stick': 0.24; "i've": 0.25; 'least': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; "d'aprano": 0.31; 'steven': 0.31; 'stuff': 0.32; 'subject:the': 0.34; 'but': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; 'really': 0.36; 'done': 0.36; 'should': 0.36; 'too': 0.37; 'being': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'new': 0.61; "you're": 0.61; 'choose': 0.64; 'our': 0.64; 'more': 0.64; 'love': 0.65; 'charset:windows-1252': 0.65; 'life': 0.66; 'american': 0.66; 'investment': 0.66; 'between': 0.67; 'six': 0.68; 'to,': 0.72; 'ashamed': 0.84; 'downloadable': 0.84; 'pdfs': 0.84; 'british': 0.87; 'migrating': 0.91; 'sorry.': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: Python Programing for the Absoulte Beginner Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 08:04:53 +0100 References: <0hhrt99lb6hhfh9q7mhra55d8base6eumg@4ax.com> <53ddee30$0$29976$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-78-147-18-8.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 31 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1407135913 news.xs4all.nl 2906 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:57738 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:75668 On 04/08/2014 07:30, Bob Martin wrote: > in 726123 20140803 090919 Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> Steve Hayes wrote: >> >>> I've got too big an investment in books on Python 2, and there are no >>> books available on Python 3 (I don't regard downloadable PDFs or other >>> onlines stuff as "books"). >> >> I love Python 3, it's way better than Python 2, and there's less and less >> reason to stick to Python 2 now. You really should learn Python 3, you >> won't be sorry. >> >> But, if you choose not to, there's nothing to be ashamed of. Python 2.7 has >> got at least six years of life left in it, and when you're done with it, >> migrating to Python 3 isn't like learning a new language. It's more like >> the difference between American and British English. > > With American English being 2.7 ?? > Sorry, but someone had to ask :-) > American English is Python 4 :) The original English is Python 0.1. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence