On 5-Dec-08, at 8:40 AM, A.M. Kuchling wrote:
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 05:40:46AM -0000, glyph@divmod.com wrote:
For most users, especially new users who have yet to be impressed with Python's power, 2.x is much better. It's not like "library support" is one small check-box on the language's feature sheet: most of the attractive things about Python are libraries. Of course I am not free
Here I agree, sort of. Newbies may not understand what they're giving up in terms of libraries. (The 'sort of' is because, having learned 3.0, learning the changes for 2.6 is certainly much easier than learning a first programming language is.)
For possible insight, here is a current discussion on the topic: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7hlra/ask_progit_ive_got_the_it... (note that these would be programmers interested in learning python, not people trying to learn programming) -Mike