[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 3.0 final

[Nick Coghlan]

Bill Janssen wrote:
> Thomas Wouters <thomas at python.org> wrote:
> 
>> Allow me to paraphrase glyph (with whom I'm in complete agreement, for what
>> it's worth): many newbies will be disappointed by Python if they start with
>> Python 3.0 and discover that most of the cool possibilities they had heard
>> about are 'being worked on' and not quite ready. I don't doubt that 3.0 will
>> be easier for the new programmer to learn, but I do not believe the average
>> "Oh, I heard about Python, let's learn it" person should be pointed to 3.0
>> right now. They should be encouraged to learn 2.6 -- or even 2.5.
> 
> I think that's right.
> 
> I was asked this question today, and it comes up (to me) fairly often at
> PARC.  I usually suggest using the Python version that's standard for
> the user's platform, if they use OS X or Linux (and most do), which is
> typically 2.5 (for OS X Leopard), and 2.4 (for Linux -- may be out of date).

For Linux, it depends on the distro. I think Ubuntu has been on 2.5
since 7.04 or so.

Cheers,
Nick.

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