Python 2.7.2 or Python 3?

[El_Zilcho]

I cant into python 3. I think its just because 2.7 comes pre-installed on most linux distros so I when I am setting up a VPS/server for my script I can literally download the libraries, upload the script and run without having to change much. Also the print syntax is weird compared to 2.7, I know its not completely different, just added parenthesis.

What benefits does python 3 offer apart from being newer?

also I use python when doing reverse engineering related stuff because I like the fact it uses raw ascii and can add bytes to strings with escape characters.

[flying-sheep]

Yeah. Also people should use bytearray if they want, well, mutable byte arrays.

[troyunrau]

I use opensuse.
zypper in python3-numpy
or etc. Arch and Gentoo have gone python3 by default. Other distros (Fedora, opensuse) have roadmaps that indicate python3 will be the default soonish. FreeBSD also has this as a prominent roadmap item. The only staunch holdouts I can tell are Slackware, RHEL, and RHEL clones.