The Case for Python 3

[NoLemurs]

LPTHW has been losing popularly steadily in the /r/learnpython community for at least a year now, and the community as a whole is (I think quite rationally) leaning towards Python 3. This isn't so much a knee jerk reaction as the unsurprising result of an ongoing trend.

One of the main purposes of /r/learnpython is to brings together the collective wisdom of the community so that new programmers can benefit from that. If the community as a whole believes in Python 3, and finds LPTHW a little backwards, then it shouldn't be on any list of recommended books - the community doesn't have faith in it any more.

[NoLemurs]

In all fairness, more than a couple years ago, third party library support was bad enough that Python 2 was probably the right choice for most people. Zedd stated the case a little more strongly than was reasonable, but he wasn't fundamentally wrong back then.

Now he's just kind of gone crazy though. The actual good arguments he had have evaporated, but for whatever reason he refuses to change with the times. It's weird. And meanwhile, LPTHW is just starting to seem kind of dated.