Many of the scientific libraries including Ipython have declared that they will drop support for Python 3 by 2020, Nikola the statics blogging library will be dropping Python 2 support in their next major release [2]. Personally I feel Python 3 is a cleaner language as it prevents variables leaking out of scope, you should check out Aaron Meurer's slides on Python 3 [3]. Unfortunately there have been many instances where I had to use python 2 just because a library didn't support it. I recommend and learning and python 3 and switching to python 2 when necessary, for me conda environments work like a charm when switching between two. In python 3 books I feel Allen Downey's book "Think Python" is good http://greenteapress.com/wp/think-python-2e/.
[1]: https://python3statement.github.io/ [2]: https://getnikola.com/blog/env-survey-results-and-the-future-of-python-27.html [3]: https://asmeurer.github.io/python3-presentation/slides.html#1 On 4 August 2016 at 22:16, Noufal Ibrahim KV <nou...@nibrahim.net.in> wrote: > > I think Python 3 has arrived. There are a few libraries that are not > ported and there's legacy code which you might have to work on but apart > from that, 3 is the way to go. > > Learn Python the Hard way is a good book to start with and the HTML > version is available online. > > -- > Cordially, > Noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers -- Harsh Sent from a GNU/Linux _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
