Yes, there's nothing you will gain by starting with 2.7. The language is polished, majority of modules are ported (currently from those that matter only twisted

Yes, there's nothing you will gain by starting with 2.7. The language is polished, majority of modules are ported (currently from those that matter only twisted and opencv isn't). If you for some reason have to work on older version (for example RedHat still uses 2.6) knowing Py3 is not really an issue to program there. Of course few nice features are missing, but people seem to talk as if it is a completely different language for some reason. With Python 3 at least you have a nice more consistent language. If you were learning Java, would you start with JDK 1.3 or the latest one?