Re: Noob question on 2 vs 3 Python releases

2010-12-29 Thread Anssi Saari
Franck Ditter fra...@ditter.org writes: Pardon my noobness (?) but why is there a 2.x and 3.x development teams working concurrently in Python ? Well, Python 2.7 is the last major 2.x release, only bugfixes are done for it, like the 2.7.1 release. Actual developement is in the 3.x branch now.

Noob question on 2 vs 3 Python releases

2010-11-14 Thread Franck Ditter
Pardon my noobness (?) but why is there a 2.x and 3.x development teams working concurrently in Python ? I hardly saw that in other languages. Which one should I choose to start with, to cope with the future ? Isn't 3.x supposed to extend 2.y ? This situation is very strange... Thanks for your

Re: Noob question on 2 vs 3 Python releases

2010-11-14 Thread Chris Rebert
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Franck Ditter fra...@ditter.org wrote: Pardon my noobness (?) but why is there a 2.x and 3.x development teams working concurrently in Python ? I hardly saw that in other languages. You haven't heard of the infamous Perl 6? Which one should I choose to start

Re: Noob question on 2 vs 3 Python releases

2010-11-14 Thread Dan Stromberg
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Franck Ditter fra...@ditter.org wrote: Pardon my noobness (?) but why is there a 2.x and 3.x development teams working concurrently in Python ? I hardly saw that in other languages. Which one should I choose to start with, to cope with the future ? Isn't 3.x