On Tuesday, 11 September 2012 22:19:08 UTC+5:30, Charles Hottel wrote: > I have a lot of programming experience in many different languages and now > > I want to learn Python. Which version do you suggest I download, Python 2.x > > or Python 3.x ? Also why should I prefer one over the other? > > > > Right now I am thinkng Python 3.x as it has been out since 2008, but I have > > some concerns about backward compatibility with older packages that I might > > want to use. > > > > Thanks for your ideas and help.
Use Python 3 because most packages support Python 3. Python 2.7 has many features that Python 3 has so it will require minimal effort to write Python 2.x code. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
