Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!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 0.003 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'python.': 0.02; 'tutorial': 0.03; 'interpreter': 0.05; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'steve': 0.09; "'python": 0.09; 'function,': 0.09; 'subject:Why': 0.09; 'cc:addr:python-list': 0.11; 'python': 0.11; "wouldn't": 0.14; '*function*': 0.16; 'fine.': 0.16; 'from:addr:rosuav': 0.16; 'from:name:chris angelico': 0.16; 'hayes': 0.16; "now'": 0.16; 'sat,': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'trying': 0.19; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.22; 'print': 0.22; 'versions': 0.24; 'software.': 0.24; 'cc:2**0': 0.24; 'excel': 0.26; 'header:In- Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'statement': 0.30; 'message- id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.30; 'work.': 0.31; 'though.': 0.31; 'quite': 0.32; "can't": 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'received:google.com': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; 'version': 0.36; "didn't": 0.36; 'subject:?': 0.36; 'should': 0.36; 'pm,': 0.38; 'explain': 0.39; 'future': 0.60; 'son': 0.61; 'took': 0.61; "you'll": 0.62; 'week,': 0.64; 'more': 0.64; 'different': 0.65; 'future,': 0.83; 'abandon': 0.84; 'one;': 0.84; 'magazines,': 0.91; 'to:none': 0.92; 'imagine': 0.93 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:cc :content-type; bh=hS5qfR56WUiL2rFl6rGlmnQTd4D2ja2qpwQwDFf5T0c=; b=sEAnQShfuOe6HiYjIcTceUgzMKx21o7wtoe7BA5h9cYw+WZR+Zibv+pj2O3Uq66+k2 Z40uSsscwMyZkWZN3qVaYLWr9ziBipF4uv+TP/EZXYFSPuPxKUIq2qkHZ7a4TEsk60Td 5x/F4fLaLA+cFOVY8GwiwGGk3F+6vA5RbXuN9LN4dhVt/v5Y7q/HkaSwJnE+0jM+WXFy yWSiPfOwAjObKq4kzraGZHHUfqXz36mGtIamjiEBF7x1u9YVkXH4qBPI5aPCXyWcn/mL fo0YfuDUsNrDXdkzyG5zpi5JAtb8x5l6NZNeTUCbXyD34qo+wJSCLrA8FHl4nS5pbeGM /B2g== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.52.108.164 with SMTP id hl4mr16133821vdb.25.1397911611425; Sat, 19 Apr 2014 05:46:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 22:46:51 +1000 Subject: Re: Why Python 3? From: Chris Angelico Cc: "python-list@python.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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: 23 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1397911620 news.xs4all.nl 2891 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:48861 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:70380 On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Steve Hayes wrote: >>Some say 'Python 3 is the future, use it for everything now' and other >>say 'Python 3 is the future but you can't do everything in it now so >>use Python 2'. > > Yes, that made me more or less abandon my attempt to learn Python. > > I had Python 3 on my computer (came on one of those freebie discs you get with > magazines, I think) and my son had a book on it, so I thought with the program > and the instructions I should be able to learn something. > > It took me a week, with some help from this forum, to get the Print statement > to work. If your book and your interpreter didn't match, then that's a problem, just as if you were working with different versions of any other software. (Can you imagine reading through a Microsoft Excel tutorial and trying to do the exercises in a different version of Excel?) The print statement wouldn't work because there isn't one; the print *function* will work quite happily, though. All you need is for someone to explain it to you as a function, and you'll be fine. ChrisA