Ask HN: Learn Python in 2020

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Few questions:

1. What is the best and also fastest way to learn the language in 2020? (please recommend resources)

2. Do I need to learn Python 2.x or just latest version?

3. What Python API's/libraries/frameworks are most in demand when applying for work?

Thank you all in advance.

Edit: formatting

Python 3 vs Python 2 is easily answered: The differences are subtle (there are concise lists of differences), you can apply any old tutorial/book/Ressource and for instance mostly have to ensure to type print(foo) instead of print foo or foo.items() instead of foo.iteritems().

Depending on libraries, it highly depends on what you want to do. Python for data science? There are tons of great open books.

Python is great for its REPL shell. You can learn the language by experimenting and exploring. This approach is also part of many API docs in python, in contrast to many other comparable programming languages.

You can answer these by googling.

True (already done that), but I would like to hear HN community opinion.

If you’ve googled then why are you asking about python 2?

Because Python 2 is in almost every book and online course (even that it has reached end of life).

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