[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

Mike Klaas mike.klaas at gmail.com
Fri Dec 5 21:01:35 CET 2008


On 5-Dec-08, at 8:40 AM, A.M. Kuchling wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 05:40:46AM -0000, glyph at 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_itch_to_learn_python_since/

(note that these would be programmers interested in learning python,  
not people trying to learn programming)

-Mike


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