Question

Do anyone knows if I will have problems using python 2.7 for this course?

Answer 1

I think that's what you want... You just want to stay out of the 3.+ version...

Answer 2

I just want to know if 2.7 can handle it, because I don't want to get complicated working with several version....I'm just beginning with programming

Answer 3

I'm using version 2.7.2 and it's working beautifully. I think most of the 2.+ versions are similar and compatible but things change when you get to the 3.+ versions. I believe the syllabus tells you to get the 2.7 version... That's the newest before things went to 3 as far as I know.

Answer 4

Yes, I believe anything from Python 2.4 to 2.7 will work okay. Only thing to look out for is that there isn't a pylab lib for 2.7, at least I didn't find one because numpy is only for 2.6 at the moment.

Answer 5

in fact, they said that we have to download the 2.5.4 version....so 2.7 works find, that is good news

Answer 6

so...the lack of pylab will be a problem....I mean...for the assignments?

Answer 7

Well, only far ahead, like in lecture 18+ when professor Guttag starts discussing stochastic methods, and you need to somehow visualize data (don't know if you are used to MATLAB). So, it might be good to use the pylab lib for graphs and such. But, most of the times, 2.7 code is backwards compatible with 2.6, so you can just download Python 2.6 when the time comes and just use it in that case. That's what I did, at least.

Answer 8

glad someone knows what hE[[ is going on around here...cause I don't. :D

Answer 9

yes it will be fine

Answer 10

I was able to find versions for all the extra packages we need compatible with python 2.7.2. I'm on Windows 7 64-bit. I'd recommend 2.7.2, and if you have trouble finding a compatible version of a package, ask on this forum and someone will help you.

Answer 11

Under the assignments section it says use 2.5.4
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-00-introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-fall-2008/assignments/