Hi there I'm sure you get a lot of "2 or 3" questions, but here's another. Umonya [1] uses Python to introduce school kids to programming. The initiative is only 15 months old and up till now we've been using existing notes and exercises and thus Python 2. But we're at the stage where we can either stick with 2 for the next few years, or go to 3 now.
We received a grant from Google to reach 1,000 kids in South Africa with our course in 2011. People have also shown interest in running the course in Croatia, Poland and Egypt. We're also eyeing developing African countries in the long-term. As such, we're taking the time now to write our very own specialised course notes and exercises, and we this is why we need to decide *now* which path to take: 2 or 3? As we will be translating the notes we'll probably stick with out choice for the next few years. Since these are kids, we feel the nice changes in 3 such as removing integer division will help in teaching. It will also remove confusion when they go to download Python and grab the latest version. Since they're just starting, chances are almost none will be hit by the limited library support for at least a year or two. They will, however, be hit by the confusion of seeing Python 2 code all over the web. We're tending towards 3, but I am a little cautious myself. Marco [1] http://umonya.co.za -- Marco Gallotta MSc Student Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town people.cs.uct.ac.za/~mgallott | marco-za.blogspot.com marco AT gallotta DOT co DOT za | 073 170 4444 | 021 552 2731 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
