On 6/29/2012 10:58 AM, David Thomas wrote: > Just discovered this in the tutorial further down. I'm currently learning > Python 2 because there seems to be a lot of tutorials out there covering > Python 2 rather than 3. The latest edition (3rd?) of Programming Python by Mark Lutz covers py3k (it targets 3.0/3.1 IIRC, but the official Python docs cover the differences between versions). The tutorial in the official docs is short compared to a book, but it covers the basics well. The official docs do cover each module in the standard library in great detail. It is mainly reference, though there are a few tutorials (e.g. the logging module has at least 2 tutorials).
If you are not restricted to 2.x, learn 3.2/3.3. 2.x is used mainly because some major libraries (e.g., Twisted, Django) and/or other dependencies do not support 3.x yet. There will be no 2.8, and 2.7 isn't getting any new features AFAIK. -- CPython 3.3.0a4 | Windows NT 6.1.7601.17803 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
