I am completely new to Python. I am taking Google/CourseEra’s free Learn to Python course and its specifically states that I need Python 3.4. Obviously that is an older release. Is it possible to still download on my ipad? The page for it doesn’t say much other than a suggestion to get the newer version. I want it to be as compatible and comprehensive as possible so the suggested version would be good. Any advice helps! And if it can’t be on my ipad maybe that’s the problem I’m running into?
By Jo via Discussions on Python.org at 08Jul2022 01:28:
I am completely new to Python. I am taking Google/CourseEra’s free
Learn to Python course and its specifically states that I need Python
3.4. Obviously that is an older release. Is it possible to still
download on my ipad? The page for it doesn’t say much other than a
suggestion to get the newer version. I want it to be as compatible and
comprehensive as possible so the suggested version would be good. Any
advice helps! And if it can’t be on my ipad maybe that’s the problem
I’m running into?
This doesn’t answer your question, but I wanted to say I’d be very
surprised if you ran into dificulties with a newer version of Python.
Python releases strive very hard indeed to not break code written for
older revisions.
You will have problems with Python 2 code in Python 3, but the 2->3
version change was a single massive breaking change to make a lot of
language updates, and versions from 3.0 onwards returned to the “do not
break things” policy. Broadly speaking, newer versions of Python tend to
only have new features, and do not change older behaviours.
If your Python course is using Python 3 I’d expect it to Just Work on
newer revisions of Python 3.
If you encounter problems which you think are from the version
difference, please feel free to come here and ask.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson cs@cskk.id.au
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Good to know. I really appreciate your response, Cameron. That said, I’m gonna go ahead and get the latest. Thanks!
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