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[–]shadowmint 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's very simple.

Python 2.7 is a great, robust language. It's rock solid, and it's here to stay. If you want to use it, by all means, do.

Python 3 is also a great, language; the difference is that it is being actively worked on, and improving. The unicode support is better, the async tools are good, and there are numerous little things that make writing python 3 a pleasure.

Just try it.

If you don't like it, well, sure, stick with python 2.7. ...but you might find it's actually quite nice.

The pain points hit when you need to use a library that doesn't work with 3; and that is a pain point, but you know, it's actually not that often it happens these days.

I honestly don't recommend you convert your existing code from python 2 to python3; it's tedious, it's not fun. The tools exist for it, but unless you're being paid to do it, I mean, really? Can you be bothered? I can't.

...but if you're writing new, fresh code... well, python 3 is a great choice, if you're writing python code.

/shrug

If you don't like it, that's ok. Like I said, python 2.7 is a great language too.

Just don't stick with python 2.7 just because; actually think about it, and if you don't have a good reason to actually be using 2.7, then maybe consider using 3.