[Cialug] Python 2 or Python 3?

[Ralph Kessel]

Now you have me snickered in with Python. Chose python 2 because bought book LEARN PYTHON THE HARD WAY and he's adamant about using 2. Language is challenging but I'm more than half-way through. Just got on to objects. Still having many questions that the book skips over (although elaborates in enclosed cd). I found a item which I couldn't get to work and it appeared in my google search:ex25.py.  Couldn't get one function to compile. I guess I'm now a python newbie and emphasize Newbie.
Ralph



On Sunday, July 20, 2014 12:55 PM, Ralph Kessel <ralphkessel75 at yahoo.com> wrote:
 


Thanks once again for all of your sage advice.
Ralph



On Sunday, July 20, 2014 12:09 PM, Will <staticphantom at gmail.com> wrote:
 


Unless you wish to do something productive now with certain web frameworks
just bite the bullet and learn Python 3. The syntax isn't drastically
different.

As far as Python 2, the support for it has been extended. I will say when
on windows it is in your best interest to download PyWin32.

-Will C
On Jul 20, 2014 1:05 PM, "Josh More" <jmore at starmind.org> wrote:

> Go with Python 3.
>
> I say this, not because it's better or in more frequent use, but
> because just picking one language and learning it well is better than
> constantly second guessing yourself.  Ignore all the P2 advice
 until
> you truly understand how P3 works.  Then, you'll be able to play with
> other languages more effectively.
>
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Ralph Kessel <ralphkessel75 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > I've installed python 3.4 on both my windows and linux machines,  but
> all the tutorials suggest python 2 even python 2 will be obsolete. I'm
> definitely giving it my best but caught in the transition. Please advise?
> > Ralph
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