Op Wednesday 27 May 2015 15:44 CEST schreef Mark Lawrence: > On 27/05/2015 09:42, Cecil Westerhof wrote: >> Op Wednesday 27 May 2015 09:30 CEST schreef alb: >> >>> But here I have another question, as a python novice is there >>> really any reason for me to use any particular version of Python? >>> >>> Should I start directly with the newest? What about 2.7? >> >> In principal you should use the ‘latest’ 3. The only problem is >> that a lot of libraries are not converted to 3 yet. If you need one >> of those, then you have ‘no choice’ and have to use 2.7. But I >> would recommend to use ‘from __future__' to make the 2.7 code as >> much as possible 3 compliant. >> > > Please define "a lot" whilst bearing in mind green against red here > https://python3wos.appspot.com/
I just started using Python again and the first ‘real’ program I wrote I had to write with Python 2 because the needed library (libturpial, that is not listed on your link) works only with Python 2. A short search about which of the two to use gives similar answers to mine. And as far as I can see in my neighbourhood Python 2 is almost exclusively used because used libraries are only available in Python 2. This is not a scientifically substantiated argument, but for me good enough to use a lot. -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
