[Tutor] Python version 2.7 or 3.0

[Leam Hall]

On 03/12/2013 11:47 AM, Alan Gauld wrote:
> On 12/03/13 14:20, Mike Nickey wrote:
>
>> I'm seeing on StackOverflow that 2.7 is the standard for those that have
>> libraries that haven't been ported to 3.1.2 yet. Does this mean that 2.7
>> is dead or dying? Is this just a well managed marketing campaign?
>
> Like any software the latest version will eventually predominate. But
> since many libraries have not been ported to v3 yet 2.7 is still very
> much alive and still being supported. I seem to recall it being stated
> that 2.7 is the last of the v2 Python family but that it will be
> receiving updates/fixes for some time yet.
>
> It's not a marketing campaign but the normal process of migrating from
> one version to a newer, incompatible, version.

It also depends on what platform you're developing for. On Red Hat boxes 
2.6.6 is the "standard" for RHEL 6. From what I understand, RHEL 7 will 
not be Python 3 yet, either.

If you don't have any platform restrictions, then 3.3 is the way to go.

Leam