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On 11/09/2012 17:49, Charles Hottel wrote:
>   I have a lot of programming experience in many different languages and now
> I want to learn Python.  Which version do you suggest I download, Python 2.x
> or Python 3.x ?  Also why should I prefer one over the other?
>
> Right now I am thinkng Python 3.x as it has been out since 2008, but I have
> some concerns about backward compatibility with older packages that I might
> want to use.
>
> Thanks for your ideas and help.
>
>

Perhaps this will sway you http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.3.html
There is no longer an equivalent document for the Python 1.x or 2.x 
series of releases.

-- 
Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.