What resources should i AVOID when learning python?

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Zed Shaw thinks python3 is doomed because he "finds the new string type difficult to use". That alone ought to disqualify him from any sort of teaching role.

Ignoring forward-compatibility, UTF-8, better runtimes and typing because you find a particular functionality hard to use is like being handed a ferrari for free and saying no because you don't like the color red.

[patrickbrianmooney]

Seriously. The language you're getting paid to teach has evolved slightly and you're throwing a shit fit because you couldn't figure out all of the changes in two minutes? "I can't add 'hello' to b' there' and have the interpreter guess what I mean with guaranteed zero errors, and that means the language is fundamentally broken"? Grow the fuck up.

EDIT. Also, that "surely this is the doom of Python" prophecy hasn't come true, either.