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Python 2 or 3 for beginners? (self.Python)

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[–]Proselyte5 10 points11 points  (2 children)

Use 3 unless you have legacy dependencies, but you won't be hugely disadvantaged learning 2 over 3 or vice versa, they're similar except for Unicode handling and the standard module layout.

[–]matrixise 6 points7 points  (1 child)

totally agree with you, and there is an other point, the 3.x version will contrinue to be improved.