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by sixtofour
5311 days ago
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Python 3 is still an "eyes open" choice. Python.org all but comes out and says that 2 is still the safer choice. http://wiki.python.org/moin/Python2orPython3 tl;dr "If 3 does everything you need, great. However, there's a good bit of things that still don't work with 3, in which case 2 is the safer choice. Here's a pretty long list of reasons why 2 is probably better for you. ..." |
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But I bet within a year, that's no longer true. (This is dependent on package migration, but there's been a lot of progress lately, and the chances of a novice needing a sophisticated package day one is slim anyway.)
There are a few items that Python 3 fixes that will make this a no-brainer when the vast majority of major packages are ported to 3. Specifically, floating point results of integer division, and print as a function are two that come to mind.
I can't tell you how many times I cursed at the same bug as a beginner (back before division was importable from __future__). 1/2 + 1/2 = 0. Uggh!
And the beginner may as well get in the habit day 1 of using parentheses in statements like print("Hello World").