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On 27/05/2015 09:42, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
> Op Wednesday 27 May 2015 09:30 CEST schreef alb:
>
>> But here I have another question, as a python novice is there really
>> any reason for me to use any particular version of Python?
>>
>> Should I start directly with the newest? What about 2.7?
>
> In principal you should use the ‘latest’ 3. The only problem is that a
> lot of libraries are not converted to 3 yet. If you need one of those,
> then you have ‘no choice’ and have to use 2.7. But I would recommend
> to use ‘from __future__' to make the 2.7 code as much as possible 3
> compliant.
>

Please define "a lot" whilst bearing in mind green against red here 
https://python3wos.appspot.com/

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence