I’m pretty new to Python and discovered the nicely presented PEP8 coding style guide linked in the post. Stumbling onto The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python! has been a very helpful compliment to the official Python Documentaion
Hopefully this post will help others getting familiar with Python.
Seconding this. For someone that doesn’t know anything about Python, there are vital aspects of Python 2 that need to be covered.
In the context of learning a language, most of the time, a lower version number doesn’t mean that much. In the case of Python 2, there are fundamental incompatibilities - and, as you say, it’s still out there, and when your see it, you need to know what that means.
Maybe you don’t choose a library or a piece of software if you notice it. Maybe you get a legacy code base dumped on your lap. This shit happens.