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On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 4:06 PM, John Ladasky
<john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 12, 2013 8:34:15 PM UTC, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>Unless you have a good reason for sticking with 2.x, go with 3.x.
>
> I agree, Chris, I will be teaching my son Python 3 from the start.  In fa=
ct, I'm in the middle of a messy upgrade of my own computer to get everythi=
ng ready for Python 3.  Upgrading my son's machine should be less painful, =
because he doesn't need cutting-edge versions of scipy, wxPython or Matplot=
lib... but I do hope that some of the game packages, like PyGame, are Pytho=
n 3-compatible.  I haven't checked into that yet.

I've used pygame with Python 3, so it's definitely compatible.