Re: [Tutor] Which version of python should i use?

2013-05-21 Thread Albert-Jan Roskam
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Which version of python should i use? Hello Amal, On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:24 PM, Amal Thomas amalthomas...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you very much..!! I am starting to learn python for my Bioinformatics work, so I would look for the version that has libraries

[Tutor] Which version of python should i use?

2013-05-20 Thread Amal Thomas
hi, I am a beginner. I am using a unix sytem (ubuntu 12.10). Python 2.7.3 is installed in my system. I found out that Python has version upto 3.3.2. Should I update my python version? Is the syntaxes of the each version different? Thanks, Thomas ___

Re: [Tutor] Which version of python should i use?

2013-05-20 Thread Dave Angel
On 05/20/2013 05:59 AM, Amal Thomas wrote: hi, I am a beginner. I am using a unix sytem (ubuntu 12.10). Python 2.7.3 is installed in my system. I found out that Python has version upto 3.3.2. Welcome, and thanks for telling us your environment up front. Should I update my python

Re: [Tutor] Which version of python should i use?

2013-05-20 Thread eryksun
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Amal Thomas amalthomas...@gmail.com wrote: I am a beginner. I am using a unix sytem (ubuntu 12.10). Python 2.7.3 is installed in my system. I found out that Python has version upto 3.3.2. Should I update my python version? Ubuntu 12.10 should have 3.2.3

Re: [Tutor] Which version of python should i use?

2013-05-20 Thread Amal Thomas
Thank you very much..!! I am starting to learn python for my Bioinformatics work, so I would look for the version that has libraries helpful for me.. On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Dave Angel da...@davea.name wrote: On 05/20/2013 05:59 AM, Amal Thomas wrote: hi, I am a beginner. I am

Re: [Tutor] Which version of python should i use?

2013-05-20 Thread Albert-Jan Roskam
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Amal Thomas amalthomas...@gmail.com wrote: I am a beginner. I am using a unix sytem (ubuntu 12.10). Python 2.7.3  is installed in my system. I found out that Python has version upto 3.3.2. Should I update my python version? Ubuntu 12.10 should have 3.2.3

Re: [Tutor] Which version of python should i use?

2013-05-20 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On 20/05/13 23:22, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote: To what extent is Ubuntu (I use Mint, but I think that's almost the same) already using Python 3.2 internally? Zero. As far as I know, the only major Linux distro using Python 3 as the standard Python is Arch Linux, and they have a reputation for

Re: [Tutor] Which version of python should i use?

2013-05-20 Thread Amit Saha
Hello Amal, On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:24 PM, Amal Thomas amalthomas...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you very much..!! I am starting to learn python for my Bioinformatics work, so I would look for the version that has libraries helpful for me.. Do you already have any libraries in mind (or aware of)