Dear Bruce, being myself a Python programmer for more than 16 years I only recently started usind django when I was looking for a way to set up a web application. The reason for this choice is motivated by the positive experience I always had with Python and so I dived into Django. Now when it comes to Python programming there is always this 2.X vs 3.X thing and this is also something one immediately has to deal with when it comes to Django programming. Setting up Apache and using mod_wsgi, calling a local Django installation set up with virtualenv, I directly ran into the problem that mod_wsgi can only work with a Django version using the same Python version mod_wsgi was compiled against. Since I am running a gentoo linux and therefore used to keep things relatively up to date, I decided to use Django version 1.6 and Python version 3.3. Of course then I discovered that this renders almost 80-90% of the additional Django packages, which make Django so powerful, "useless" because they are still with the old Python 2.7 version. Just as an example: using Python 3.3 kicks out all Django based web shop framworks (to my best knowledge) and reduces the useable internationalization packages to only two ot three. And so on. Therefore I personally recommend using Pyhton 3.3 only if one is safe with Python programming and if one has the time to do some things from scratch. If we are talking about different Django versions (I know you where talking about different Django versions only, but I thought it is worth having a look at the Python version as well): I realized that there where quite heavy changes in the framework over the different versions, and assuming that such a tendency will remain it would be better to use the newest stable version of Django instead of an old version where you probably have to rewrite large parts of the code when porting to a newer version. Regarding literature the most useful one is the 1000+ pages Django doc. This is a really excellent documentation, and since Django is progressing quite fast, it will the most useful reading on this topic. Of course there are also excellent code snippets on certain Django topics on the web. In the very beginning, when playing around with Django, I also used tried the Bitnami Django stack, but personally I didn't find it very useful. Best wishes, Ulrich
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