**** Thanks everybody, I have decided to downgrade to python 2.5 and try that. I will of course share my experience later how it works. thank you all again and wish you all a nice weekend.
Bikash On 11/13/08, Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Harald Armin Massa wrote: > > Maybe, just maybe, you could be better of to "downgrade" to Python 2.5 > > if you are just a beginner with Python and want to use some > > description from the web. Many tools and documentations are not > > updated to Python 2.6 yet. > > > > This is reasonable advice, but since he's a beginner, I'd like to expand > on WHY this is reasonable advice. > > Python is in the middle of a rather significant transition, from Python > 2 to Python 3. Python 3 makes some many changes in the language, some > of which are incompatible with current code. This was done to clean up > some of the things that should have been cleaned up long ago, but > couldn't because of compatibility. Python 3.0 should be formally > released within the next 4 weeks or so. > > Python 2.6 is a special "bridge" release; it contains some of the Python > 3.0 changes, but in a way that helps you identify things that will need > to be migrated. Because of that, it issues warnings for constructs that > are valid in Python 2.x, but will be invalid in Python 3.x. For someone > who is just beginning, that is an unnecessary distraction. > > Python 2.x and Python 3.x will coexist in the world for many years yet, > so there's nothing wrong with learning Python 2.x today. But to do > that, I agree with Harald that you should probably start with Python > 2.5. Virtually all of the major tools work with Python 2.5. > > -- > Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. > > _______________________________________________ > python-win32 mailing list > python-win32@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 > -- Bikash Sherchan In der Au 16C/3102 70327 Untertürkheim Germany Tel: +4971112164816 (Home Zone) +4917664081666 (Mobile Zone)
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