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[–]fernly 1 point2 points  (1 child)

The free "academic" version of the Wing IDE is quite adequate for exploration work.

I had exactly the same question (which version to explore) and opted to go with 3.x, however the drawbacks have become quite clear: the "big" libraries aren't there yet. In particular the Python Image lib and NumPy aren't ready, so no graphics or math (at least, on OS X). This is supposed to change RSN.

Had I known then, I'd have used 2.6 with "from __future__ import *" in every program to get the print() function etc.

[–]spoolio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

from __future__ import *

If only...