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Thu Jan 29 04:22:46 CET 2009 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-January/085629.html

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> "Martin v. Löwis" writes:
>  > > It might also be a good idea to take the download link off the front
>  > > page of python.org: until that happens newbies are going to keep coming
>  > > along and downloading it "because it's the newest".

By that logic, I would suggest removing 2.6 ;-)
See below.

>  > 
>  > It was (and probably still is) Guido's position that 3.0 *is* the
>  > version that newbies should be using.
> 
> Indeed.  See Terry Reedy's post.

When people ask on c.l.p, I recommend either 3.0 for the relative 
cleanliness or 2.5 (until now, at least) for the 3rd-party add-on 
availability (that will gradually improve for both 2.6 and more slowly, 
for 3.x).  I expect that some newbies would find 2.6 a somewhat 
confusing mix of old and new.

tjr

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