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  Re: Beginner needs advice Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-05-27 14:33 -0700
    Re: Beginner needs advice Uncle Ben <bgreen@nycap.rr.com> - 2011-05-28 11:57 -0700
      Re: Beginner needs advice Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-05-28 18:18 -0400

#6432 — Re: Beginner needs advice

Lew Schwartz wrote:
> So, if I read between the lines correctly, you recommend Python 3? Does 
> the windows version install with a development environment?

Dabo, last I checked, uses wxPython, which uses wxWidgets (sp?), which 
is not yet ported to Python 3.  So if you got that route you'll need to 
stay with 2.7.

~Ethan~

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#6484

On May 27, 5:33 pm, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> Lew Schwartz wrote:
> > So, if I read between the lines correctly, you recommend Python 3? Does
> > the windows version install with a development environment?
>
> Dabo, last I checked, uses wxPython, which uses wxWidgets (sp?), which
> is not yet ported to Python 3.  So if you got that route you'll need to
> stay with 2.7.
>
> ~Ethan~

Just this past Tuesday, I blindly downloaded 3.1 and found that at the
level I am workloing, all it took to get my 2.7 code to run was to put
parens around the print arguments and double the slashes in integer
division. I didn't even use the 2to3 automation.

But I am a noob to Python, which is my tenth computer language.  Maybe
when I get more ambitious I will find more serious differences.

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#6494

On 5/28/2011 2:57 PM, Uncle Ben wrote:

> Just this past Tuesday, I blindly downloaded 3.1 and found that at the
> level I am workloing, all it took to get my 2.7 code to run was to put
> parens around the print arguments and double the slashes in integer
> division. I didn't even use the 2to3 automation.

1//2 works in 2.7 and earlier.
from __future__ import division
gives 1/2 == 0.5 and in 3.x

print('abc') is the same as print 'abc'
The parens only make a difference with 2 or more items.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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