[Tutor] I am learning python3 and would like some more python3 modules/programs on my...

[Prasad, Ramit]

frank ernest wrote:
> version python3.2 linux
> I am learning python3 and would like some more python3 modules/programs on my computer to look at and work with
> to learn more about python3. I have read the tutorial and some of the complete language reference. I can't tell
> from the package index whats a python3 module/program and whats for 2.X. I seems from the voting guide that
> their are not many python3 programs; did I learn python at the wrong time? If possible I would like to get
> involved with a python3 program despite the fact I would not be at first a good programmer (It may help you to
> know that python3 is my first language though I did try to learn ruby but I did not like the language much [I
> like python though]) unfortunately their does not seem to be much choice of what to or not to help program. On
> my OS their are only a few bindings to libraries the standard python installation and the python3-tools package
> which contains some turtle programs and examples of programming in python. To give you an idea of what I should
> like to work in I eventually want to create with python something like a voice recognition program though not to
> recognize voice but rather music. Though I intend to create more then the afore mentioned program so any branch
> of application programming would do, I intend to create it first.

Python 2 and Python 3 are pretty similar syntactically, but it can be a bit challenging for a beginner.
This might help tell you how to map from 2 to 3 or vice-versa. http://docs.python.org/py3k/whatsnew/3.0.html 
As for choosing between Python 2 and 3, it really depends on what you want to do and if the libraries
are available for Python 3 or not. For example, PIL is a popular Python image manipulation library
and I believe is only Python 2 officially. Of course, if you do not need PIL then it does not matter
which you pick. Given no definite goal or task to create, I would suggest learning Python 3 as I 
think Python 2 will only get security fixes. I have no knowledge of music/voice analysis modules but 
maybe this will give you a start. http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonInMusic 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6356749/music-analysis-and-visualization

You can even think about switching later if necessary. Although, it is probably easier to 
go from 2 to 3 due to the existence of automated conversion tools. I would imagine that 
even if your OS only includes a few bindings, it is probably not a  big deal to compile / install 
your own python packages (including library bindings). IT is possible that your package manager 
might not name all python bindings as python-*; sometimes they are named <program>-python. 

Nobody is a good programmer at first, it takes practice and experience. Good luck
and feel free to ask more questions when you run into a problem.



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