On 31.05.2014 12:07, Steve Hayes wrote: > So I bought this book, and decided that whatever version of Python it deals > with, that's the one I will download and use.
This sounds like remarkably bad advice. That's like saying "I bought a can of motor oil in my department store and whatever engine that is good for that's the car that I'll buy and put into!" > The book is: > > Cunningham, Katie. 2014. Teach yourself Python in 24 hours. > Indianapolis: Sams. > ISBN: 978-0-672-33687-4 > For Python 2.7.5 > > I'll leave Python 3.2 on my computer, but 2.7.5 will be the one I'm installing > now. Even if I could *find* a book that deals with Python 3.x, couldn't afford > to but yet another Python book. Lucky for you 2.7.5 isn't all that different from Py3 and most of it will apply. You'll be missing out on a bunch of cool features (arbitrary precision ints, int division operator, real Unicode support) but that's no big deal. Regards, Johannes -- >> Wo hattest Du das Beben nochmal GENAU vorhergesagt? > Zumindest nicht öffentlich! Ah, der neueste und bis heute genialste Streich unsere großen Kosmologen: Die Geheim-Vorhersage. - Karl Kaos über Rüdiger Thomas in dsa <hidbv3$om2$1...@speranza.aioe.org> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list