What’s the ideal Python version for a beginner to start learning Python? I need to recommend some newbies a programming language to learn and I chose Python. I’m still not sure which version.
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What’s the ideal Python version for a beginner to start learning Python? I need to recommend some newbies a programming language to learn and I chose Python. I’m still not sure which version.
It depends what you’re going to do with it.
Unicode handling has vastly improved in Python 3. So if you intend to use this for building web pages or some such, Python 3 might be the obvious choice.
On the other hand, many libraries and frameworks still only support Python 2. For example, the numerical processing library numpy, and the web framework Django both only work on Python 2. So if you intend to use any of those, stick with Python 2.
Either way, the differences aren’t huge to begin with. I’d say Python 3 is a little easier to pick up (due to its string handling), but that is a good reason to learn Python 2 first. That way, if you run into a piece of Python 2 code (and you will), you’ll know what is going on.