Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
"Martin v. Löwis" writes:
> > It might also be a good idea to take the download link off the front
> > page of python.org: until that happens newbies are going to keep coming
> > along and downloading it "because it's the newest".
By that logic, I would suggest removing 2.6 ;-)
See below.
>
> It was (and probably still is) Guido's position that 3.0 *is* the
> version that newbies should be using.
Indeed. See Terry Reedy's post.
When people ask on c.l.p, I recommend either 3.0 for the relative
cleanliness or 2.5 (until now, at least) for the 3rd-party add-on
availability (that will gradually improve for both 2.6 and more slowly,
for 3.x). I expect that some newbies would find 2.6 a somewhat
confusing mix of old and new.
tjr
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