Zed Shaw originally strongly advised students in his Learn Python the Hard Way course to go with Python 2, because there's less opportunity for confusion (eg, i

Zed Shaw originally strongly advised students in his Learn Python the Hard Way course to go with Python 2, because there's less opportunity for confusion (eg, if you start with 3 there's a good chance you'll come across libs you need that haven't been ported to it yet). However, I can't find that warning anymore in the second edition, so not sure if he's changed his mind or not.