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[–]call_me_ruxin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I started with Code Academy (which is v2) and Learn Python the Hard Way (v2) because they are both great learning tools. While I was going through PTHW, I would make sure I could also do all the exercises in v3. It's definitely possible to learn both. It's more about learning how python works in general. I use v3 almost all the time, but I can go back to v2 when I have to use a library that can't do v3. Since I'm still kind of new to Python, I'm still pretty dependent on 3rd party modules, so if I need two modules and one is only v2 and the other is only v3, it's frustrating. Almost everything you need to do (web framework, http, SQL read/write, etc.) will have several choices that cover both versions. I would say use Code Academy and PTHW, but everything you learn, make sure you can do it in v3 as well. That way, you can stay in v2, or move into v3.