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I’m going to start on a long (~1-year) programming project in Python. I want to use wxPython for my GUI (supports 2.6), but I also want to use 3.1 for the rest of the project (to start using the 3.x syntax).
Is there any way for me to design a project that mixes 2.x and 3.x modules? Or should I just bite the bullet and use either 2.x (preferred, since I really want to learn wxPython) or 3.x throughout?
Thanks,
Mike
Python 2 and 3 are not that different. If you have learned Python 2 well, it will be a matter of minutes to get acquainted with Python 3. The official recommendation says that you should use Python 2.6 (the current version) and try to be forward-compatible. Python 3 is currently not an option for large projects as virtually none of the popular packages have been translated yet. But development of Python 2 and 3 will continue in parallel for a long time, so you won’t lose much by not using Python 3. You can import many syntactical features of 3 (Unicode string literals, division,
printfunction, absolute imports) using the__future__module, and the standard library remains mostly the same. So I’d recommend using Python 2.