"Dotan Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > coming of Python3 and the new syntax, is this a bad time to start > learning Python? I don't want to learn 2.x if 3.x will replace it,
3.x won't be the end of changes in Python, amy more than other languages change. While the changes for 3.x will be bigger than for previous languages my understanding is that they ae not huge and certainly not as big as the jump from VB6 to VB.NET for example. A coming version change is never a good reason not to learn a language IMHO. More important is to ask why learn that language in the first place? What will it offer that your current skills don;t already provide? If you can answer that question positively then the version change will likely make no significant change to the cost/benefit equation. > That asked, I've heard that 2.6 can be configured > to warn when using code that will not run in 3.x. > Is this correct? How is this done? I beliebe you re right but don;t know the mechanism. But I should think it equally likely that there will be tools available either with the release or very soon after thart will, at the very least, identify the areas needing change - if not actually making most of the changes for you. This nearly always happens with significant language upgrades. > version of python on this machine. I want my own apps to throw > errors, > but not other python apps on this system. Is there some error-level > code that I can run? I'm not clear what you mean by that bit. -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
