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joelthelion on Jan 23, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Learn data science in your browser

Because Python3 is the current version of python? If you're starting new projects, there are very few valid reasons not to use it.

xasos on Jan 23, 2015 [–]

A bunch of data sciene material, in particular, is written in Python 2.x, and it wouldn't be bad to teach Python2 either. You could always use the _future_ command for newer modules as well

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