Meta pledges Three-Year sponsorship for Python if GIL removal is accepted

Re:Meta pledges Three-Year sponsorship for Python if GIL rem... by whalesalad on Saturday July 08, 2023 @02:39PM (#36647402)

That comic is very old. In the days of 2.x it was a little harrier but nothing like people make it out to be.

The literal only thing you need to understand is “sys.path”. If you inspect this in a shell you will know what you’re up against. Python is all literally just directories. It’s so easy and yet people get so bent out of shape over it.

Create a venv, activate it, and use pip as normal. If you ever run into issues, look at sys.path. That’s it.

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Re:Meta pledges Three-Year sponsorship for Python if GIL rem... by coldtea on Saturday July 08, 2023 @02:45PM (#36647461)

>That comic is very old.

And few things have changed since then.

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Re:Meta pledges Three-Year sponsorship for Python if GIL rem... by whalesalad on Saturday July 08, 2023 @02:50PM (#36647509)

I’m gonna have to disagree with ya there bud. Never been easier to be a Python developer.

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Re:Meta pledges Three-Year sponsorship for Python if GIL rem... by coldtea on Saturday July 08, 2023 @04:07PM (#36648203)

Which is irrelevant. We're talking about the dependencies/packaging/virtual environments situation, not whether "it's easy to be a Python developer" in general.

And you can disagree all you want, but it's simply wrong that Python's packaging/venv ecosystem is "just fine".

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