Re:Ask HN: How did Python become the lingua franca of ML/AI?
by alanfranz on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @02:57AM
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class.methodName = newMethod
> .. kinda thing, future callers now get your method instead of the original.
Which is as powerful as it is a problem, since doing such kind of monkeypatching will change the behaviour all other instances, including already-created ones, that know nothing about your trick.
Any part of the program can modify any other part of the program in a significant way, making local reasoning and debugging very hard.
So, great for quick-and-dirty single-file scripts/ipython notebooks. Terrible for large systems.
That's the very issue with Python. The way it doesn't enforce sane, clean programming behaviour makes it easy for a beginner/non-programmer to work with it. But a large system with a lot of external libraries is very hard to maintain.
Which is as powerful as it is a problem, since doing such kind of monkeypatching will change the behaviour all other instances, including already-created ones, that know nothing about your trick.
Any part of the program can modify any other part of the program in a significant way, making local reasoning and debugging very hard.
So, great for quick-and-dirty single-file scripts/ipython notebooks. Terrible for large systems.
That's the very issue with Python. The way it doesn't enforce sane, clean programming behaviour makes it easy for a beginner/non-programmer to work with it. But a large system with a lot of external libraries is very hard to maintain.
Source: Python user since ~2004