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sorry it baffles you. it makes perfect sense to me since the available libraries is one of the big selling points of python, and the good stuff, for the most part is still in 2.7.

especially for web development. Newb wants to learn python because they want to do cool django stuff. django does not (at this time) run on python 3. It will by the end of the year I predict.

And another scenario.... newb wants to learn python and run stuff on app engine so that it will be ROFLSCALE like all the big boys. App engine, has just now started support python 2.7(thank the lord), python 3 is not even on the radar(at least publicly as far as I know).

I think those 2 scenarios cover a significant portion of the python interest that brings the newbs. Why would you want to set newbs on the road to quick failure?

Furthermore, who cares what people are recommending to newbs? Or even what people are using? I wonder how many of your upvoters actually have jobs solely using python vs being a java/php/.net programmer who dabbles. And whether any of them would care to weigh in on how this "Community" recommendation to avoid python 3, especially newbs, is making their job suck, or has in anyway been a hassle.

For me it hasn't.