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Re:Ask HN: Machine Learning Engineers, what do you do at work? by EnergyAmy on Friday June 07, 2024 @04:06PM (#40612430)
In theory you're right, CPython is written in C and it could segfault or display undefined behavior. In practice, you're quite wrong.

It's not really much of a counterargument to say that Python is good enough that you don't have to care what's under the hood, except when it breaks because C suck so badly.

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Re:Ask HN: Machine Learning Engineers, what do you do at work? by KeplerBoy on Friday June 07, 2024 @04:25PM (#40612610)
I was specifically talking about python packages using C. You type "pip install" and god knows what's going to happen. It might pull a precompiled wheel, it might just compile and link some C or Fortran code, it might need external dependecies. It might install flawlessly and crash as soon as you try to run it. All bets are off.

I never experienced CPython itself segfault, it's always due to some package.

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