Re: [Tutor] The Perennial 3.2 vs 2.7
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011, Wayne Werner wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Mark Lybrand mlybr...@gmail.com wrote: so, use my 2.7 and not my 3.2 for my study? Or use my 3.2 for study and then do what I have to in 2.7 after including those lines? Honestly it probably doesn't matter. Many 3rd party libraries have now been ported to Python 3.x, so unless you have a particular library you're interested in, I would start with 3.2 until you find something you can't do. Personally, that's the biggy for me, and why I remain on 2.7. wxPython has not yet been ported to Python 3, and that's a substantial big deal for me. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] The Perennial 3.2 vs 2.7
Okay, so I am about to take up the banner of learning Python again. I had started with 3.2 and I have a book that I like. But all of the things that I want to use Python for appear to be 2.x specific. Will I be setting myself up for failure if I continue learning 3 and then try to write programs in 2.x? Note that I am an experienced programmer, albeit in curly-brace languages (Perl, Java, C#, HTML/CSS/JavaScript), so that will probably count in my favor. But y'all would know better than I if there are significant issues that I will need to overcome conceptually. -- Mark :) ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] The Perennial 3.2 vs 2.7
On Nov 17, 2011 8:28 PM, Mark Lybrand mlybr...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, so I am about to take up the banner of learning Python again. I had started with 3.2 and I have a book that I like. But all of the things that I want to use Python for appear to be 2.x specific. Will I be setting myself up for failure if I continue learning 3 and then try to write programs in 2.x? Note that I am an experienced programmer, albeit in curly-brace languages (Perl, Java, C#, HTML/CSS/JavaScript), so that will probably count in my favor. But y'all would know better than I if there are significant issues that I will need to overcome conceptually. The main differences are syntactic. If you add these lines to the top of your 2.7 files then you won't have much else to worry about. from __future__ import print_function, unicode_literals, division, absolute_import range, input = xrange, raw_input There may be some other differences but those should take care of the larger ones. HTH, Wayne ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] The Perennial 3.2 vs 2.7
Forwarding on to the list... (hit reply to all next time) On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Mark Lybrand mlybr...@gmail.com wrote: so, use my 2.7 and not my 3.2 for my study? Or use my 3.2 for study and then do what I have to in 2.7 after including those lines? Thanks for the quick reply by the way. I am still struggling with the loss od curly braces :) Honestly it probably doesn't matter. Many 3rd party libraries have now been ported to Python 3.x, so unless you have a particular library you're interested in, I would start with 3.2 until you find something you can't do. As far as the curly braces go... just think about everything that isn't really programming, but telling the compiler something. Get rid of it, and you probably have Python... and you can always try: from __future__ import braces ;) HTH, Wayne ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
