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- Use Python 3 for new Python applications.
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- If you're learning Python for the first time, familiarizing yourself with Python 2.7 will be very
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useful, but not more useful than learning Python 3. Learn both. They are both "Python".
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- Software that is already built (e.g. commercial software) often depends on Python 2.7.
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useful, but not more useful than learning Python 3.
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- Learn both. They are both "Python".
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- Software that is already built often depends on Python 2.7.
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- If you are writing a new open source Python library, it's best to write it for both Python 2 and 3
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simultaneously. Supporting 3 only is a political statment and will alienate many of your users.
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This is not a problem — slowly, over the next three years, this will become less the case.
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simultaneously. Only supporting Python 3 for a new library you want to be widely adopted is a
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political statment and will alienate many of your users. This is not a problem — slowly, over the next three years, this will become less the case.
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So.... 3?
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