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Re:Never run ‘python’ in your downloads folder by kokooo on Sunday August 23, 2020 @04:28PM (#24255029)
I've seen this complaint for almost every language, and the few languages i don't see this complaint for, people end up complaining about something else. It's too late to change how imports work and it's not especially complicated so no use complaining.
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Re:Never run ‘python’ in your downloads folder by pabs3 on Sunday August 23, 2020 @09:22PM (#24256786)
It is never too late to change a language's default import paths. Perl removed . from @INC a couple of years ago.
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Re:Never run ‘python’ in your downloads folder by Trasmatta on Sunday August 23, 2020 @08:19PM (#24256468)
I pretty much never have problems with imports in Ruby. It's not like it's an unsolvable problem. Nothing would ever get better if we just took the "no use complaining" approach.
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Re:Never run ‘python’ in your downloads folder by BiteCode_dev on Monday August 24, 2020 @01:39AM (#24257795)
What's the differences between python and ruby import systems ?
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Re:Never run ‘python’ in your downloads folder by masklinn on Monday August 24, 2020 @01:49AM (#24257833)
That they never had a problem with one.

I’ve never had a problem with python’s import system either.

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