> how can you ask someone who is new to the language to just choose You don't have to choose. For new projects, Python 3 has been the way to go for many years

> how can you ask someone who is new to the language to just choose You don't have to choose. For new projects, Python 3 has been the way to go for many years now[1][2]. [1] PSF wiki guidelines https://wiki.python.org/moin/Python2orPython3 https://wiki.python.org/moin/Python2orPython3 [2] Snapshot of the same page from 2011, clarifying that "Python 3.x is the present and future of the language": https://web.archive.org/web/20110902011248/http://wiki.python.org:80/moin/Python2orPython3 https://web.archive.org/web/20110902011248/http://wiki.pytho...