Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:05,640 --> 00:00:06,790 Welcome back everyone. 2 00:00:06,810 --> 00:00:11,910 I wanted to take just a little bit of time to quickly discuss choosing Python 2 versus choosing Python 3 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:13,940 3. 4 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:18,160 It used to be that if you are a beginner and you were just learning Python it was actually a pretty 5 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:24,430 difficult decision to choose Python to versus Python 3 because many companies still had legacy Python 6 00:00:24,430 --> 00:00:26,610 to code to be maintain. 7 00:00:26,650 --> 00:00:33,950 However Python too was going to stop receiving security updates in the year 2020 and this course was 8 00:00:33,950 --> 00:00:36,610 initially released teaching both versions of Python. 9 00:00:36,650 --> 00:00:41,960 We taught both Python to Python 3 and the versions were similar enough that it was easy to learn both 10 00:00:42,050 --> 00:00:45,070 simultaneously and technically it still is. 11 00:00:45,300 --> 00:00:51,330 However now every major external Python package has been updated to support Python 3. 12 00:00:51,460 --> 00:00:58,250 Basically 99 percent of the top 300 packages of Python that are external packages you can download fully 13 00:00:58,250 --> 00:01:03,820 support Python 3 and some of them are even moving towards being exclusively for Python 3. 14 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:08,630 And these are packages such as Gengel for web development who will later in the future stop supporting 15 00:01:08,630 --> 00:01:11,680 Python to because of this. 16 00:01:11,690 --> 00:01:17,090 Now the course will focus solely on Python 3 and all the code all the notebooks and all the videos have 17 00:01:17,090 --> 00:01:20,800 been updated to just focus purely on Python 3. 18 00:01:20,960 --> 00:01:24,590 Now if need be going back to Python 2 syntax is a very easy jump. 19 00:01:24,590 --> 00:01:29,330 Once you know Python 3 so you can go through this course learn the entirety of Python 3 the ins and 20 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:33,740 outs of the Python programming language and in case you get a job somewhere where they still have Python 21 00:01:33,740 --> 00:01:34,990 2 legacy code. 22 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:37,070 Don't worry you're not going to be completely lost. 23 00:01:37,100 --> 00:01:39,290 The languages are very very similar. 24 00:01:39,290 --> 00:01:43,340 The versions of the languages are similar so you can easily jump from one to the other and I always 25 00:01:43,340 --> 00:01:46,800 like to say that if you know Python 3 you basically already know Python too. 26 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:50,160 You just need to learn a couple of syntax changes in Python 3. 27 00:01:50,180 --> 00:01:54,350 Really is the future of Python so that's where we focus on it for this course. 28 00:01:55,290 --> 00:01:59,090 So just the short really quick summary based on three really is the future of Python. 29 00:01:59,130 --> 00:02:02,260 So we're going to be using Python 3 exclusively for this course. 30 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:06,610 Now the old notebooks are available in case you need some Python to information. 31 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:11,430 But we're going to go ahead and get started by installing Python 3 and will be using Python 3 for the 32 00:02:11,430 --> 00:02:12,480 rest of this course. 33 00:02:12,570 --> 00:02:16,780 You have those old notebooks in case for some reason you need to reference legacy code. 34 00:02:17,100 --> 00:02:20,390 Thanks and we'll see at the next lecture where we begin installing Python. 3848