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[snip]
 > As for which version if Python, I have been using Python 2 to learn on
 > as I heard that Python 3 was still largely unadopted due to a lack of
 > library support etc... by comparison. Are people adopting it fast
 > enough now that I should consider learning on 3 instead of 2?
 >
[snip]
You should be concentrating on Python 3 unless you rely on a library
that hasn'tbeen ported yet. Python 2 has stopped at Python 2.7. There
won't be a Python 2.8.