[dx034]

In the department I work, 5 people recently started using Python who never wrote a line of code before (except some limited VBA).

While the coding itself was relatively smooth, we spent a majority of our time consolidation which Python version works with which packages and how to create code that can be executed by computers that use Python 2 vs Python 3. Some people had to use packages that only worked with P2, others only worked with P3.

There's still not really a solution for this. We'll probably just switch to Julia once it gets enough support in areas we need..

So I disagree, Python is actually not a good language for beginners. The language is great but the ecosystem can be extremely frustrating.

[Doxin]

The mistake here is not just making a choice but instead having people pick at random. Hardly pythons fault, every programming language has multiple incompatible versions.