12-15-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by
guptaxpn
I'm a newbie and want to learn a programming language, willy-nilly I picked python...
Should I go with 2.6.x which at first glance seems extremely well documented, or should I go with 3.0, which is new and shiny?!
I want...no...I'm going to NEED
fantastic documentation or I'm going to fail miserable at this...
Thanks for your opinion!
guptaxpn
I would suggest Python 2.6.x and then gradually move on to Python 3.x. The reason is python 3.x is very very new and it breaks backward compatibility with older version. For this reason, migration of existing python applications to 3.x version will take a quite a bit of time. People are always wary of moving to a newer release of the same product.
My 2 cents.
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NAME
dh_pycentral - use the python-central framework to handle Python modules and extensions
SYNOPSIS
dh_pycentral [debhelper options] [-n] [-Xitem] [-V version] [module dirs ...]
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dh_pycentral is a debhelper program that will scan your package, detect public Python modules and move them in /usr/share/pycentral so that
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