Re: Newbie question - probably FAQ (but not exactly answered by regular FAQ)

2008-05-06 Thread Nick Craig-Wood
Banibrata Dutta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As such 2.6 & 3.0 are also cooking, but from what I see on the mailing > list, some of the features are a bit controversial. So if I start with > 2.5 now, unless there are some break-thru preformance gains, or > annoying defects fixed, I'd stick to i

Re: Newbie question - probably FAQ (but not exactly answered by regular FAQ)

2008-05-06 Thread cokofreedom
2.5 seems the defacto standard now for a new user, NB: probably not the standard for the common business productions. However are you on Windows or *nix? *nix may ship a certain version, so for ease of use it would be best to use that. Personally I use 2.5 because it is a complete version, and the

Re: Newbie question - probably FAQ (but not exactly answered by regular FAQ)

2008-05-06 Thread Banibrata Dutta
On 5/6/08, Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick Craig-Wood a écrit : > > Banibrata Dutta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I've gone through the list of "language differences" between 2.3 / 2.4 > > > & 2.5 of CPython. I've spend around 2 weeks now, learning v2.5 of > > > CPyt

Re: Newbie question - probably FAQ (but not exactly answered by regular FAQ)

2008-05-06 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Nick Craig-Wood a écrit : Banibrata Dutta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've gone through the list of "language differences" between 2.3 / 2.4 & 2.5 of CPython. I've spend around 2 weeks now, learning v2.5 of CPython, and I consider myself still very very newbie. So, unable to take a call as to

Re: Newbie question - probably FAQ (but not exactly answered by regular FAQ)

2008-05-03 Thread Nick Craig-Wood
Banibrata Dutta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've gone through the list of "language differences" between 2.3 / 2.4 > & 2.5 of CPython. I've spend around 2 weeks now, learning v2.5 of > CPython, and I consider myself still very very newbie. So, unable to > take a call as to how-important or des

Newbie question - probably FAQ (but not exactly answered by regular FAQ)

2008-05-03 Thread Banibrata Dutta
Hi, I've gone through the list of "language differences" between 2.3 / 2.4 & 2.5 of CPython. I've spend around 2 weeks now, learning v2.5 of CPython, and I consider myself still very very newbie. So, unable to take a call as to how-important or desirable the newer language features are -- so wheth