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| 4 | 4 | .. _which-python: | |
| 5 | 5 | ||
| 6 | - Which Python to use? | ||
| 7 | - | ||
| 8 | - | ||
| 9 | - 2.x vs 3.x | ||
| 10 | - ~~~~~~~~~~ | ||
| 11 | - | ||
| 12 | - Python 2.x is the status quo, Python 3.x is the shiny new thing. | ||
| 13 | - | ||
| 14 | - | ||
| 15 | - `Further Reading <http://wiki.python.org/moin/Python2orPython3>`_ | ||
| 16 | - | ||
| 17 | - | ||
| 18 | - Today | ||
| 19 | - ----- | ||
| 6 | + Today (Python 2) | ||
| 7 | + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | ||
| 20 | 8 | ||
| 21 | 9 | If you're choosing a Python interpreter to use, I *highly* recommend you use | |
| 22 | 10 | Python 2.7.x, unless you have a strong reason not to. | |
| 23 | 11 | ||
| 12 | + Also use Python 2.7.x if you're starting to work on a new Python module. If you | ||
| 13 | + have managed to get it working on 2.7, you can add support for older 2.x | ||
| 14 | + versions. | ||
| 24 | 15 | ||
| 25 | - The Future | ||
| 26 | - ---------- | ||
| 16 | + The Future (Python 3) | ||
| 17 | + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | ||
| 27 | 18 | ||
| 28 | - As more and more modules get ported over to Python3, the easier it will be for | ||
| 29 | - others to use it. | ||
| 19 | + Python 2.x is the status quo, Python 3.x is the shiny new thing. | ||
| 30 | 20 | ||
| 21 | + `Further Reading <http://wiki.python.org/moin/Python2orPython3>`_ | ||
| 31 | 22 | ||
| 32 | - Which Python to Support? | ||
| 33 | - ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | ||
| 23 | + Python 3, on the other hand, differs much more greatly from Python 2, so | ||
| 24 | + writing code that works both on Python 2 and Python 3 is a very complicated | ||
| 25 | + process. | ||
| 34 | 26 | ||
| 35 | - If you're starting work on a new Python module, I recommend you write it for | ||
| 36 | - Python 2.5 or 2.6, and add support for Python3 in a later iteration. | ||
| 27 | + It is still possible to `write code that works on Python 2.6, 2.7 and 3.3 | ||
| 28 | + <http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2013/5/21/porting-to-python-3-redux/>`_. Depending on | ||
| 29 | + the kind of software you are writing, this might be either tricky or extremely | ||
| 30 | + hard, and if you're a beginner there are much more important things to worry | ||
| 31 | + about. | ||
| 37 | 32 | ||
| 38 | 33 | Implementations | |
| 39 | 34 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
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