On 5-Dec-08, at 8:40 AM, A.M. Kuchling wrote: > On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 05:40:46AM -0000, glyph at divmod.com wrote: >> For most users, especially new users who have yet to be impressed >> with >> Python's power, 2.x is much better. It's not like "library >> support" is >> one small check-box on the language's feature sheet: most of the >> attractive things about Python are libraries. Of course I am not >> free > > Here I agree, sort of. Newbies may not understand what they're giving > up in terms of libraries. (The 'sort of' is because, having learned > 3.0, learning the changes for 2.6 is certainly much easier than > learning a first programming language is.) For possible insight, here is a current discussion on the topic: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7hlra/ask_progit_ive_got_the_itch_to_learn_python_since/ (note that these would be programmers interested in learning python, not people trying to learn programming) -Mike
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