For what it's worth, I recently ran across this article about setting up sane Python development environments: https://jacobian.org/writing/python-environment-2018/ Peter On Mar 7, 2018, 4:54 PM -0500, Jay Luker <[log in to unmask]>, wrote: > I would add a recommendation for pyenv as a way to manage multiple versions > of python on a machine. Very helpful, particularly if you need to run > tests under multiple versions with something like tox. > > https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv > > —jay > > On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 3:35 PM Ed Summers <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > I agree. Third party support for Python3 is pretty good now. But if you > > have any dependencies you know you're going to need it's a good idea to > > check beforehand. > > > > There's also the six module if you want to be able to say you support 2 > > and 3, and want a nice way of papering over the differences. > > > > http://six.readthedocs.io/ > > > > //Ed > > > > > On Mar 7, 2018, at 3:31 PM, Tod Olson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > > > I'd suggest Python 3. > > > > > > There are mechanisms for managing virtual environments for Python, like > > penv, which make it easy to install and switch between versions without > > confusing the system. > > > > > > -Tod > >