On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 6:35 PM, TP <wing...@gmail.com> wrote: > Also Chris has an "unnatural" abhorrence of Python 2.7 :) --- at least as > far as learning Python books.
Thanks for hunting that thread down, I probably should have back when I mentioned it :) As to my abhorrence of Py2 - I don't hate the language (and do use it at times), but if someone's going to learn programming, s/he should really learn from something with native Unicode strings. Yes, you could use Python 2 and open with some future directives, but unless the course/book is written with that in mind, you'll end up having to unlearn and relearn to master true Unicode handling. No point doing that when you can just learn on Python 3! ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
