Terry Reedy wrote: > "Rui Maciel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > | Recently I woke up inclined to take up the task of learning another > | programming language. I've already dipped my toes in Perl (I've read > online > | tutorials and wrote a couple of irrelevant pet projects) but, as the > | computers at my workplace only sport the python interpreter, it probably > | means that learning python will end up serving me better, at least in the > | short run. Plus, you know how Perl goes. > > If you intend to use Python on the computer at your workplace, then learn > the version installed there. > > | So far the decision seems to be a no brainer. Yet, Python 3000 will > arrive > | in a few months. As it isn't backwards compatible with today's Python, > | there is the risk that no matter what I learn until then, I will end up > | having to re-learn at least a considerable part of the language. > > Most of the changes are deletions and additions, rather than changes. > > 3.0a4 will be out in a few days. If you had no reason to use anything > else, I would consider starting with that. (But the IDLE IDE on Windows > may still not work right.)
Replace IDLE by PyScripter and then you have a good development environment for Python 3000. Colin W. > > | To put it in other words, I fear that I will be wasting my time. > > If you learn and use 2.x, then avoid things that are going away. In > particular: > > Unless you need to learn about old-style classes, I would not bother with > them and the differences from new, soon to be the only style, classes. > Derive all your classes from object or a subclass thereof. > > Use // for integer floor division (ie, when you want 1/2 == 0. > Use 'from __future__ import division' if you use '/' in a file where both > operands > might be ints and you would want 1/2==.5. > > | At least that is what a clueless newbie believes. As this group is > | frequented by people who have more insight into all things pythonesque, > | what are your thoughts on this? > > Diverse, I am sure ;-) > > Terry Jan Reedy > > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
