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There's no python vs python3 decision to make. There's no (sane) reason to pick Python 2 in 2018 for new projects. Conda installer comes with Python prepackage

There's no python vs python3 decision to make. There's no (sane) reason to pick Python 2 in 2018 for new projects. Conda installer comes with Python prepackaged. So it's really a single exe and one CMD to get a Tensorflow env setup. And, of course, you have access to numpy, pandas, jupyter, PIL ...

darknoon 9y ago
You say this, but coremltools (convert from industry standard to Apple's ML framework) initially only supported python 2, so it was annoying to work with some code in Python 2 and some in 3.5.
jopsen 9y ago
+ virtualenv I always forget to set that up. Also I never learned python packaging, with npm it was trivial.
- woolvalley 9y ago
  The basic rule of thumb is npm is 'virtualenv by default' while pip is 'global by default'.
  - JBReefer 9y ago
    This kind of thing is why people are saying npm is easier...
    - 3131s 9y ago
      Yes, npm installs libraries locally so it avoids the need for something like virtualenv in the first place. Coming from Python, that immediately struck me as a better approach to package management.
- cx1000 9y ago
  If you use pipenv it takes care of the virtualenv stuff behind the scenes for you.
partycoder 9y ago
ES5 and ES6 differ a lot. There's reverse compatibility, but they do differ.