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Re:macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including ... by jodrellblank on Thursday June 06, 2019 @02:16AM (#20112040)
You can open https://repl.it/languages/python3 and start writing Python.
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Re:macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including ... by Godel_unicode on Thursday June 06, 2019 @02:43AM (#20112155)
with open("~/Documents/important.csv", "r") as f: f.read()

No? Oh well, I guess programming is hard, IT was right. Ok, back to excel...

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Re:macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including ... by amasad on Thursday June 06, 2019 @03:06PM (#20117933)
You can just drag and drop the file on repl.it and it'll just work :)
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Re:macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including ... by Godel_unicode on Friday June 07, 2019 @12:20AM (#20121640)
Gee, thanks. My point was about discoverability and being able to Google for "read csv with Python", not whether experienced programmers can hack things together.
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Re:macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including ... by amasad on Friday June 07, 2019 @01:34AM (#20121909)
Majority of our users are hobbyists and novices
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