well that's true, but I was referring to your average starting out programmer who just wants to bang out some code from an example article/blog and see "hello world" show up. he will more then likely if not guided by someone choose the latest.
no not my main issue, but the issue for someone trying to pickup python as a first langauge. as its usually suggested. its just the most common example. i mean why change it in the first place? was it not working correctly? it seemed fine to me. a good example of something that was "fixed" while never truly being broken.
Ah I didn't even consider that, I guess my "print" example doesn't fit that use case. and after doing a bit more research it seems a lot of the 3rd party libs are just about ported to python 3 at this point. However I still don't see any real benefit with python3 over 2 but perhaps that's just my ignorance again. all I do know is, unless forced to switch to 3 ill stick with 2.7 and not lose any sleep over it.
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u/mouseroot May 26 '14 edited May 26 '14
well that's true, but I was referring to your average starting out programmer who just wants to bang out some code from an example article/blog and see "hello world" show up. he will more then likely if not guided by someone choose the latest.