On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:00 PM, harrismh777 <harrismh...@charter.net> wrote: > Andrew Berg wrote: >> >> AFAICT, there are three reasons to learn Python 2: > > ... there is a fourth reason. > > The linux distro you are using currently was customized with python 2.x > > I ran into this problem this week in fact... on my HP g6 ubuntu notebook > running 10.04 lucid. It ships with the 2.6.5 interpreter. I installed 2.7.1 > and 3.2 (from sources) and was working along happy as a clam until I needed > to configure a printer... and the config tools would not function... some of > them would not even open. Want to guess? Yup, the config tools are (some > of them) written in python 2.6-- and they don't run in 2.7.1 nor 3.2 . :(
Just a note, Ubuntu 11.04 has 2.7 preinstalled. Geremy Condra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list