Why Is Python Growing So Quickly?

Re:Why Is Python Growing So Quickly? by mmagin on Thursday September 14, 2017 @01:53PM (#15250593)

I actually love forcing people into a fairly consistent coding style, but everything else about the language irks me compared to my previous extensive use of Perl (on a large enterprise software product).

One particularly big thing, that it doesn't have much of a distinct compilation phase. You'll write some script you want to run to do some one-off task that will take the next hour, only to find it crashed after 20 minutes when it hits some boneheaded syntax error you made.

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Re:Why Is Python Growing So Quickly? by makecheck on Thursday September 14, 2017 @01:54PM (#15250616)

For that though you can use linting tools such as "pylint"; catches a lot of errors that might otherwise be runtime exceptions.

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Re:Why Is Python Growing So Quickly? by shalabhc on Thursday September 14, 2017 @02:12PM (#15250821)

Take a look at mypy and pytype - there is a drive in the Python community to add a verification system to the language.

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Re:Why Is Python Growing So Quickly? by dwaltrip on Thursday September 14, 2017 @01:59PM (#15250670)

For this reason, I generally test scripts like that with a small slice of the data, or small set of dummy data. Then one can also verify that the output is reasonable -- which is good to do even with a compiled language that would catch all syntax errors ahead of time.

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Re:Why Is Python Growing So Quickly? by cbr on Thursday September 14, 2017 @02:13PM (#15250829)

    only to find it crashed after 20 minutes when it hits
    some boneheaded syntax error you made

I find mypy to be pretty useful for this.

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