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Thanks everybody,

I have decided to downgrade to python 2.5 and try that. I will of course
share my experience later how it works. thank you all again and wish you all
a nice weekend.

Bikash

On 11/13/08, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:
>
> Harald Armin Massa wrote:
> > Maybe, just maybe, you could be better of to "downgrade" to Python 2.5
> > if you are just a beginner with Python and want to use some
> > description from the web. Many tools and documentations are not
> > updated to Python 2.6 yet.
> >
>
> This is reasonable advice, but since he's a beginner, I'd like to expand
> on WHY this is reasonable advice.
>
> Python is in the middle of a rather significant transition, from Python
> 2 to Python 3.  Python 3 makes some many changes in the language, some
> of which are incompatible with current code.  This was done to clean up
> some of the things that should have been cleaned up long ago, but
> couldn't because of compatibility.  Python 3.0 should be formally
> released within the next 4 weeks or so.
>
> Python 2.6 is a special "bridge" release; it contains some of the Python
> 3.0 changes, but in a way that helps you identify things that will need
> to be migrated.  Because of that, it issues warnings for constructs that
> are valid in Python 2.x, but will be invalid in Python 3.x.  For someone
> who is just beginning, that is an unnecessary distraction.
>
> Python 2.x and Python 3.x will coexist in the world for many years yet,
> so there's nothing wrong with learning Python 2.x today.  But to do
> that, I agree with Harald that you should probably start with Python
> 2.5.  Virtually all of the major tools work with Python 2.5.
>
> --
> Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
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