Thanks, everyone, for the answers! I am still on 2.6 since so many packages rely on it. I got 3.1 at first, but I could not get much to work with it so I installed 2.6 and have only found one package which refuses to work, instead of a lot of them.
On 4/13/10, Shashwat Anand <anand.shash...@gmail.com> wrote: > It is like releasing window Xp SP3 even if Vista is out. > > The problem is we should start using python 3.x but many application like > django, twisted had not migrated yet. Hence this stuff to support 2.x . 2.7 > is the last 2.x version, no more. > > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Alf P. Steinbach <al...@start.no> wrote: > >> * Alex Hall: >> >> Hi all, >>> I am just curious: if Python3.x is already out, why is 2.7 being >>> released? Are there two main types of Python? Thanks. >>> >> >> Old code and old programming habits may work as-is with 2.7 but not with a >> 3.x implementation. >> >> So yes, there are two main extant variants of Python, 2.x and 3.x (and >> more >> if you count even earlier versions). >> >> 2.7 helps to ease the transition, and provides bug-fixes and better >> efficiency for the 2.x variant. >> >> >> Cheers & hth., >> >> - Alf >> -- >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >> > -- Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from GMail website) mehg...@gmail.com; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list