Bill Janssen wrote: > Thomas Wouters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Allow me to paraphrase glyph (with whom I'm in complete agreement, for what >> it's worth): many newbies will be disappointed by Python if they start with >> Python 3.0 and discover that most of the cool possibilities they had heard >> about are 'being worked on' and not quite ready. I don't doubt that 3.0 will >> be easier for the new programmer to learn, but I do not believe the average >> "Oh, I heard about Python, let's learn it" person should be pointed to 3.0 >> right now. They should be encouraged to learn 2.6 -- or even 2.5. > > I think that's right. > > I was asked this question today, and it comes up (to me) fairly often at > PARC. I usually suggest using the Python version that's standard for > the user's platform, if they use OS X or Linux (and most do), which is > typically 2.5 (for OS X Leopard), and 2.4 (for Linux -- may be out of date).
For Linux, it depends on the distro. I think Ubuntu has been on 2.5 since 7.04 or so. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
