Re: [BangPypers] Python 2.x Vs 3 & Books - Frequently Asked Question but on latest context

2016-08-04 Thread Dr.Bhishma Gajavelli
Thanks for the info...Anand On Aug 4, 2016 8:47 PM, "Anand Chitipothu" wrote: > On Thu, 4 Aug 2016 at 23:49 Dr.Bhishma Gajavelli < > bhishma.gajave...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi All > > > > Coming to the packages that are being used in data science are mainly > from > > Python 2.x.x > > > > Any

Re: [BangPypers] Python 2.x Vs 3 & Books - Frequently Asked Question but on latest context

2016-08-04 Thread Anand Chitipothu
On Thu, 4 Aug 2016 at 23:49 Dr.Bhishma Gajavelli < bhishma.gajave...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All > > Coming to the packages that are being used in data science are mainly from > Python 2.x.x > > Any comments on this friends ? What are the packages that are not yet available on Python 3? I did an

Re: [BangPypers] Python 2.x Vs 3 & Books - Frequently Asked Question but on latest context

2016-08-04 Thread Dr.Bhishma Gajavelli
Hi All Coming to the packages that are being used in data science are mainly from Python 2.x.x Any comments on this friends ? Regards Bhishma On Aug 4, 2016 5:19 PM, "Jins Thomas" wrote: > Hello all, > > A frequently asked question, but would like to hear the latest opinion of > Python enthus

Re: [BangPypers] Python 2.x Vs 3 & Books - Frequently Asked Question but on latest context

2016-08-04 Thread Harsh Gupta
Many of the scientific libraries including Ipython have declared that they will drop support for Python 3 by 2020, Nikola the statics blogging library will be dropping Python 2 support in their next major release [2]. Personally I feel Python 3 is a cleaner language as it prevents variables leaking

Re: [BangPypers] Python 2.x Vs 3 & Books - Frequently Asked Question but on latest context

2016-08-04 Thread Anand Chitipothu
On Thu, 4 Aug 2016 at 22:24 Noufal Ibrahim KV wrote: > > I think Python 3 has arrived. There are a few libraries that are not > ported and there's legacy code which you might have to work on but apart > from that, 3 is the way to go. > > Learn Python the Hard way is a good book to start with and

Re: [BangPypers] Python 2.x Vs 3 & Books - Frequently Asked Question but on latest context

2016-08-04 Thread Anand Chitipothu
On Thu, 4 Aug 2016 at 20:49 Jins Thomas wrote: > Hello all, > > A frequently asked question, but would like to hear the latest opinion of > Python enthusiasts on this. > > 1) If a person is starting with Python these days can we still recommend > to start with 2.x or it's better now to start wit

Re: [BangPypers] Python 2.x Vs 3 & Books - Frequently Asked Question but on latest context

2016-08-04 Thread Noufal Ibrahim KV
I think Python 3 has arrived. There are a few libraries that are not ported and there's legacy code which you might have to work on but apart from that, 3 is the way to go. Learn Python the Hard way is a good book to start with and the HTML version is available online. -- Cordially, Noufal htt

Re: [BangPypers] Python 2.x Vs 3 & Books - Frequently Asked Question but on latest context

2016-08-04 Thread Vasudev Ram
Adding my 2c: If you want to use Python 3 in a real life project and need to know if some common libraries are ported to or available for it, google for Python 3 wall of fame and see if it is in the list, and is green or red, or marked in some other appropriate way. I can't say about very recent

Re: [BangPypers] Python 2.x Vs 3 & Books - Frequently Asked Question but on latest context

2016-08-04 Thread Propadovic Nenad
Hello Jins, I'll give you my perspective as a practitioner, on the first question. You'll need both. In the long run Python 3 will probably eventually completely replace Python 2. However, at the moment there are still far to many tools/libraries/projects written in Python 2 only, that you can'

[BangPypers] Python 2.x Vs 3 & Books - Frequently Asked Question but on latest context

2016-08-04 Thread Jins Thomas
Hello all, A frequently asked question, but would like to hear the latest opinion of Python enthusiasts on this. 1) If a person is starting with Python these days can we still recommend to start with 2.x or it's better now to start with 3 2) Do we have new good books recommendations for beginn