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It's also really off putting for beginners that try to learn the language. Python 3 is being served as the main download when you search for it. And while you s
by fear91 13y ago
It's also really off putting for beginners that try to learn the language. Python 3 is being served as the main download when you search for it. And while you search for tutorials, most of them are in python 2 - and 80% of them DO NOT state whether they are for python 2 or python 3 ( because most were made during the python 2 times? ).
So people try to learn to code with python 3.x and get frustrated because simplest things don't work.
They should seriously rethink the whole 3.x thing. I must say, introducing it probably did more harm than good for the future of this language.
- maxerickson 13y agoThis is the major result when you Google "python download": http://www.python.org/getit/ http://www.python.org/getit/ It is the same as this page: http://www.python.org/download/ http://www.python.org/download/ That page gives fairly equal weight to the two versions (I guess that could have changed over time). Edit: It might make sense to have a warning about matching the interpreter version up with the tutorial, but clear wording for it is not obvious to me.
- fear91 13y agoPeople tend to click first links with way higher frequency than those located below. Additionally, when a beginner sees this page, he sees two versions - of which one is 3 and one is 2 - I think most of people will choose the "newer" ( newer = better? ) version because they don't really know about the differences between the two. The second part of the problem is the fragmentation of tutorials on other websites - which can't be fixed by changing the download page.
- briancurtin 13y agoThe reason for the "getit" page was, at least at one point, because the "download" page was blocked throughout China.