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Re:Faster Python with Guido van Rossum by brundolf on Thursday October 07, 2021 @02:44PM (#28790508)
To add to this: any time somebody at my company who doesn't work on our Python services every day has to dip into them for a one-off task, it takes a day or two of troubleshooting their environment just to get to where they can start working with the actual code. And this isn't necessarily from scratch: any Python environment that's sat still for more than a few weeks becomes inevitably broken. It's a huge time-sink and I have to think it offsets any other productivity gains that Python may be giving us.

Personally I refuse to touch our Python services with a ten-foot pole. My local app hits the testing environment and that's that.

Re:Faster Python with Guido van Rossum by manfre on Thursday October 07, 2021 @10:27PM (#28795044)
I recommend learning to use tox and virtualenvs to avoid this headache. A properly laid out project (of any language) should have a fast time from checkout to running tests.

For most python projects, that can be as simple as `pip install tox & tox`

Re:Faster Python with Guido van Rossum by brundolf on Friday October 08, 2021 @01:02PM (#28801435)
We use pip and virtual envs; not sure about tox