Alan Biddle wrote:
I am planning on learning Python, primarily for my own interest, rather than any immediate need. I am wondering whether I would be wasting my time to start with the latest 2.6 version which has a lot of good instructional material, or wait a bit for version 3.0?
If you want to use 3rd party modules, I would today consider 2.5.2 (soon to be 2.5.3) rather that 2.6. In either case, also include object or other built-in class in the list of base classes for class statements, and always start with 'from __future__ import division'.
If you are not interested in 3rd party modules, I would consider 3.0 (which will be little different from the current candidate). The main change relevant to a beginner is the deletion of duplicate or obsolete features.
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