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Re:Stop writing lambda expressions in Python by nikofeyn on Thursday September 27, 2018 @04:15PM (#18088152)
in my experience, the python ecosystem is a mess. yes, there are lots of libraries, but that is just one part of the ecosystem. for one, everyone uses a different distribution, whether it's anaconda, python(x,y), or just the default python install. this creates a lot of fragmentation, and it's hard to come into a project and fix the mess that's been created. then there's the 2.x vs 3.x issue that is still a problem. i have been introduced to three python projects at various times in my work, and all still used python 2.7 and even python 2.6. (these were projects that i helped out on and didn't create or own.) in each case, python made it quite difficult to even understand if you had setup the environment correctly.

but yes, there are lots of libraries. i think people need to take a stance and simply pull those libraries into other languages (which many are already) or simply realize that most are just wrappers around some other language library, which can be easily done in other languages as well.

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Re:Stop writing lambda expressions in Python by FridgeSeal on Thursday September 27, 2018 @08:26PM (#18090037)
You're right, it is a mess.

Don't get me wrong, there's a huge number of packages available and a lot of them are really quality and I have used the language a lot, but good gosh is the packaging a deployment a fucking disaster.

Environments are a 3rd party bolt on, that relies on hacking around with environment variables. There's no distinction between dev dependencies and actual, application dependencies. The packaging/deployment tool has gone through a bunch of different formats/styles and when it comes to deploying your code, you have nothing better than writing a bash script that automates your environment creation, activation and running of the packaging tool (you then just hope that Pip doesn't fail on some bizarre edge).

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Re:Stop writing lambda expressions in Python by pseudalopex on Thursday September 27, 2018 @10:52PM (#18090624)
Python packaging has a lot of warts, but you can specify dev dependencies in extras_require. Also, you can just run a virtual environment's interpreter without "activating" the environment.
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