Python Adventures

“Should I use Python 2 or Python 3?”

This is a very common question when someone wants to learn Python. Here is a nice article about this topic: http://wiki.python.org/moin/Python2orPython3.

(Thanks Jaume for the link.)

Update (20110404)

If you are ready to dive in Python 3, here are some tutorials:

• The official Python 3 tutorial (HTML, PDF)
• Further Python 3 docs (c-api.pdf, distutils.pdf, documenting.pdf, extending.pdf, faq.pdf, howto-advocacy.pdf, howto-cporting.pdf, howto-curses.pdf, howto-descriptor.pdf, howto-doanddont.pdf, howto-functional.pdf, howto-logging-cookbook.pdf, howto-logging.pdf, howto-pyporting.pdf, howto-regex.pdf, howto-sockets.pdf, howto-sorting.pdf, howto-unicode.pdf, howto-urllib2.pdf, howto-webservers.pdf, install.pdf, library.pdf, reference.pdf, tutorial.pdf, using.pdf, whatsnew.pdf)
• Dive Into Python 3 (HTML and PDF)

Update (20110526)

I follow the following simple guideline: I use that version of Python that comes with Ubuntu by default. In Ubuntu 10.10 it was Python 2.6, in Ubuntu 11.04 it’s Python 2.7. When they switch to Python 3.x, I will switch too.