The20
Ok, all the positive emotions aside, can someone give me a short summary why there seem to be two competing versions of python around (2.7 and 3.x)
Because the language
changed incompatibly. Enough that a lot of people consider them two different languages.
The20
and why additions i want to install (namely sciPy and Numpy) that require 3.2 won't accept the 3.3 i have installed?
There were a number of changes in the Unicode library, among other things. Changes to the standard library mean that parts of scipy and numpy are broken. The developers will need to fix those incompatibilities before it will actually work correctly.
The20
(I got around that by pretending my 3.3 install is a 3.2 install in the registry. Stupid extensions, didn't see THAT one coming! Let's see if this also works with 2.7 ...)
It won't. They will not work correctly with 3.3 until they're fixed.
The20
Edit: Probably not, got a syntax error. Guess i'll have to install the 2.7 anyways.
Gee, I wonder why. Oh, right,
it's a different language.