Re:Python built-ins worth learning (2019)
by biorach on Thursday March 10, 2022 @04:23AM
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I think you're really overestimating the gap between python 2 and 3.
My experience was that just diving into a large python3 codebase got me most of the way really quickly.
The only thing I can think of that I had to really read up on was string handling. Everything else I could just google as I came across it.
And even after 6 or 7 years, it all comes back really quickly.
Packaging stuff... weren't we using virtualenv 6 or 7 years ago? And even that - it's hardly difficult to get working with.
Re:Python built-ins worth learning (2019)
by alduin32 on Thursday March 10, 2022 @08:10AM
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The advent of declarative package management (poetry et al.) is a significant change. Not that hard to get working with, but definitely a big departure from previous practices.
The only thing I can think of that I had to really read up on was string handling. Everything else I could just google as I came across it. And even after 6 or 7 years, it all comes back really quickly.
Packaging stuff... weren't we using virtualenv 6 or 7 years ago? And even that - it's hardly difficult to get working with.