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by pmarreck 641 days ago
this actually completely turned me off from python when I first encountered it. I was like... "the program KNEW WHAT I WAS TRYING TO DO, and instead of just DOING that it ADMONISHED me, fuck Python" LOL

The proliferation of Python has only made my feelings worse. Try running a 6 month old Python project that you haven't touched and see if it still runs. /eyeroll
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tpmoney 641 days ago
>Try running a 6 month old Python project that you haven't touched and see if it still runs.

My experience has been 6 month of python works fine. In fact, python is my go to these days for anything longer than a 5 line shell script (mostly because argparse is builtin now). On the other hand, running a newly written python script with a 6 month old version of python, that's likely to get you into trouble.

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fragmede 641 days ago
argparse? docopt or google-python-fire
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tpmoney 641 days ago
argparse, because argparse is built in. I'm usually writing shell scripts to automate some process for myself and my co-workers. The last thing I want is for them to have to be fiddling with installing external requirements if I can avoid it.
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