What modern literature can you recommend for learning Python?

Question

Python

Good afternoon. Let me first say that I am new to programming. I decided to choose Python as my first language, because I want to do machine learning. But there was a problem with the choice of literature. As I already understood, the latest version of Python is 3.6. But the tutorials I found only cover 3.4. Should I stop at these resources or look for more modern textbooks? There are fears that textbooks may present outdated information and then have to be retrained. Maybe I'm thinking wrong, don't judge strictly, I'm just taking my first steps in programming. I ask for help in indifferent people. Recommend really worthwhile resources to help you learn. Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Mark Lutz)))
Learning Python
Programming in python (2 volumes)

Answer 2

Ignore 3.6 vs 3.4, there is no difference after which you have to "relearn" there.

Answer 3

I would say that most of the childhood illnesses of the 3.x branch ended just at 3.4. After that, a couple of new keywords were introduced for asynchronous programming, but for a model that was already done in version 3.4. The rest of the innovations are quite localized.
But! There are still applications where version 2.7 has to be used, so a basic understanding of the difference between the 2.x and 3.x branches is highly desirable.