i get asked this question a lot, esp. when it pertains to my book,
Core Python Programming. which should i learn? is your book
obsolete? etc. i basically tell them that even though they are
backwards-incompatible, it's not like Python 2 and 3 are so
different that you wouldn't recognize
Le Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:49:52 +,
Stephen Nelson-Smith sanel...@gmail.com s'exprima ainsi:
My brother in law is learning python. He's downloaded 3.1 for
Windows, and is having a play. It's already confused him that print
hello world gives a syntax error
He's an absolute beginner
Should I advise him to
stick with 2.6 for a bit, since most of the material out there will
be for 2.x? Or since he's learning from scratch, should he jump
straight to 3.x In which case what can you recommend for him to work
through - I must stress he has absolutely no clue at all about
Ahoy!
On Sa, 2009-11-14 at 20:49 +, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote:
He's an absolute beginner with no programming experience at all. I
think he might be following 'Python Programming for the Absolute
Beginner, or perhaps some online guides. Should I advise him to
stick with 2.6 for a bit,
My brother in law is learning python. He's downloaded 3.1 for
Windows, and is having a play. It's already confused him that print
hello world gives a syntax error
He's an absolute beginner with no programming experience at all. I
think he might be following 'Python Programming for the
Stephen Nelson-Smith sanel...@gmail.com wrote
Beginner, or perhaps some online guides. Should I advise him to
stick with 2.6 for a bit, since most of the material out there will
be for 2.x? Or since he's learning from scratch, should he jump
straight to 3.x
Version 3 support is getting
I started as an absolute beginner to with programming with Python 3. I
remain a beginner but I've now installed 2.6 as well, because I found that
some of the modules I wanted to use weren't available for 3.x.
My personal experience was that the available literature/tutorials wasn't
really a
My brother in law is learning python. He's downloaded 3.1 for
Windows, and is having a play. It's already confused him that print
hello world gives a syntax error
He's an absolute beginner with no programming experience at all. I
think he might be following 'Python Programming for the
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:37 AM, wesley chun wes...@gmail.com wrote:
My brother in law is learning python. He's downloaded 3.1 for
Windows, and is having a play. It's already confused him that print
hello world gives a syntax error
He's an absolute beginner with no programming
