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I recently heard someone advise for a friend to learn python2.7 instead of Python3. As someone not in the industry, this was surprising to me? Are companies/peo

• goostavos 12y ago
  I don't think the issue is new code, so much as it's all the old code that needs supporting. Also, library support still isn't 100% there. So, if one critical piece of your stack isn't on 3.x, you've gotta throw out the whole thing that stick with 2.x.
  • yen223 12y ago
    The biggest issue is that there's no real compelling reason to migrate away from Python 2 now. It's not meant to be an attack on Python 3 - Python 2.7 is still well-supported, and is plenty good enough for a lot of us. That said, if I were starting out now, I'd start with Python 3.
• maxander 12y ago
  This is also what I heard as of a year or two ago, but I think its becoming a progressively more outdated piece of advice as the world of Python 3 libraries catches up with 2. But certainly, Python 2.7 is still being written widely, and will remain so for awhile.
• stefantalpalaru 12y ago
  Think of Python 2 and Python 3 as different languages with the first having a larger ecosystem and slightly better performance in some common workloads on the main implementation.
• hogu 12y ago
  almost every finance shop in nyc that is using python is using python 2.7. And yes - for new code as well.