Re: [BangPypers] New to python - neuron ring

2009-10-12 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Gopinath R gopiindia...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am a newbie to python. i like to learn python strongly. which version is recommended to start with 2.6 or 3.0. I believe 3.0 has lot more features added, there is no backward compatibility in that. we

Re: [BangPypers] New to python - neuron ring

2009-10-12 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Gopinath R gopiindia...@gmail.com wrote: I am a newbie to python. i like to learn python strongly. which version is recommended to start with 2.6 or 3.0. http://diveintopython3.org/ has been released, so maybe you can start with 3.0 but OTOH, I don't know

Re: [BangPypers] New to python - neuron ring

2009-10-12 Thread Gopinath R
So Noufal, what ure suggesting me. Shall i start learning with python 3.0 ? ** On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Gopinath R gopiindia...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am a newbie to python. i like to learn python

Re: [BangPypers] New to python - neuron ring

2009-10-12 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Monday 12 Oct 2009 12:53:26 pm Noufal Ibrahim wrote: Hi all, I am a newbie to python. i like to learn python strongly. which version is recommended to start with 2.6 or 3.0. I believe 3.0 has lot more features added, there is no backward compatibility in that. we cannot use some of

Re: [BangPypers] New to python - neuron ring

2009-10-12 Thread Baiju Muthukadan
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Noufal Ibrahim nou...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] I believe the only real reason to stick with a pre 3.0 release is 3rd party library availability. BTW, Now 'distribute' ( http://pypi.python.org/pypi/distribute ) has Python 3.x support. If you want to create

Re: [BangPypers] New to python - neuron ring

2009-10-12 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Gopinath R gopiindia...@gmail.com wrote: So Noufal, what ure suggesting me. Shall i start learning with python 3.0 ? Nope. I'm pointing out what I feel the most important difference as far as usage is concerned is and then asking you to take a decision by

Re: [BangPypers] New to python - neuron ring

2009-10-12 Thread Navin Kabra
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Gopinath R gopiindia...@gmail.com wrote: I am a newbie to python. i like to learn python strongly. which version is recommended to start with 2.6 or 3.0. I believe 3.0 has lot more features added, there is no backward compatibility in that. we cannot use some

Re: [BangPypers] New to python - neuron ring

2009-10-12 Thread Navin Kabra
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Navin Kabra navin.ka...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Gopinath R gopiindia...@gmail.comwrote: I am a newbie to python. i like to learn python strongly. which version is recommended to start with 2.6 or 3.0. I believe 3.0 has lot more

Re: [BangPypers] New to python - neuron ring

2009-10-12 Thread Gopinath R
Hi i m learning python mainly for job opportunities. so is it much difficult if i learn 2.6 and then to update to 3.0 ? Thanks. On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Navin Kabra navin.ka...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Navin Kabra navin.ka...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Oct

Re: [BangPypers] New to python - neuron ring

2009-10-12 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Monday 12 Oct 2009 2:03:35 pm Gopinath R wrote: Hi i m learning python mainly for job opportunities. so is it much difficult if i learn 2.6 and then to update to 3.0 ? if it is for job, then most production platforms are still on 2.4 and 2.5 (very few on 2.6) -- regards kg

Re: [BangPypers] New to python - neuron ring

2009-10-12 Thread sudhakar s
Hi, itz good to learn python check out A Byte of Python By *Swaroop* CHhttp://www.scribd.com/doc/2544873/A-Byte-of-Python-By-Swaroop-CH On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Gopinath R gopiindia...@gmail.com wrote: Hi i m learning python mainly for job opportunities. so is it much difficult if i