Python is a fantastic eco system and it can be used for a HUGE variety of tasks with really great results. Certain problem domains are better tackled from 3 and

Python is a fantastic eco system and it can be used for a HUGE variety of tasks with really great results. Certain problem domains are better tackled from 3 and some from 2.7. Web development (my day job is writing python for a series of django webapps) is a great experience with either. I think scientific and data science based environments have better lib support in 2.7.