Python 2.7 or 3.1

Braden Faulkner bradenf at hotmail.com
Fri Oct 29 19:51:16 EDT 2010


I personally would take only one bite at a time. Meaning only do one then do the other later. 
But to each it own :)

> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 17:48:11 -0500
> To: python-list at python.org
> From: jbiquez at icsmx.com
> Subject: Re: Python 2.7 or 3.1
> 
> Hello all
> 
> Would you consider a "not so intelligent move" for a newsbie to 
> Python to have maybe version 2.7 and 3.x (if that's possible to be 
> running together on the same machine) to have them run and be 
> learning mainly in 2.7 and see differences in 3.x? In my case I am 
> interested mainly in web applications with a database and if possible 
> being accesing dbase since a projects still runs a big system under 
> dbase format,  or definitely stay with 2.7 for a while until most in 
> migrate it t o 3.x?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Jorge Biquez
> 
> At 05:21 p.m. 29/10/2010, geremy condra wrote:
> >On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Braden Faulkner <bradenf at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > Would it be safe to say that 2.6 would be even better for beginners than?
> >
> >Let me just come out with a contrary point of view before you go down
> >that path. If you're seriously considering using sqlite, then you may
> >be just as well off using Python3 as 2.7 or 2.6- it's in all of the
> >above, and Python3 is a big cleanup over previous versions of the
> >language.
> >
> >Geremy Condra
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