Re:Why We Switched from Python to Go (2021)
by kortex on Thursday May 26, 2022 @02:29PM
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> I'm tired of venv, PYTHONPATH and OS package dependency issues.
To both you and the peanut gallery. You should basically* never be using PYTHONPATH or OS packages. And there are several solutions to improve ergonomics of virtualenvs out there.
* I've never had a legitimate use case to use OS packages and only one to use PYTHONPATH, which is tot temporarily set it during tests in a repo with multiple independent sub-packages, coverage reports get a bit squirrelly.
To both you and the peanut gallery. You should basically* never be using PYTHONPATH or OS packages. And there are several solutions to improve ergonomics of virtualenvs out there.
* I've never had a legitimate use case to use OS packages and only one to use PYTHONPATH, which is tot temporarily set it during tests in a repo with multiple independent sub-packages, coverage reports get a bit squirrelly.