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by BiteCode_dev 1367 days ago
If you make a big project, you will have to use that many things with every langagues. If the language is rich, you'll learn the language. If not, you'll learn the project patterns. It's not specific to python.

But 99.9999999% projects won't implement metaclasses.

Most won't event implement decorators, context managers or generators. Use them, sure.
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GeorgeTirebiter 1367 days ago
The REAL power comes from the libraries. In the Olden Days, we would call these 'subroutines' -- libraries contain the gussied-up subroutines that make it possible to do amazing things in Python with that "10% of the language" we use.
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wheelerof4te 1367 days ago
Python already has a bunch of built-in libraries that make it a full-fledged scripting language. Basically, it is Node.js on steroids.

In the olden days, programmers would have to make 90% of that, alone.

Maybe this is the reason why everyone and their grandma can call themselves programmers these days.

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GeorgeTirebiter 1367 days ago
Yes. And all this fancy 'metaprogramming' is just syntactic sugar for how one calls subroutines.

I agree: Python has Batteries Included. But additional Batteries are Optional.

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