[flembat]

Well I was describing what I actually experienced last week. I did get my script to work after hours of faffing around, your article may have been one of the articles I read, in any event thanks for writing it. There is no way I would describe the package installation process I experienced as automatic, since pip had no idea what requirement was missing. Python was in an environment, a package used by an import statement required it to be downgraded so I had to downgrade it, by finding installing and setting up an older version. I then ran into other problems I described. Once python is set up and working it seems fine. Everything new I do in python seems way harder than it should be.

As for basic in ROM, I am not advocating BASIC, but many versions of BASIC (not in rom) have had built in support for GUIs for decades.

[zahlman]

What packages were you trying to install, on what platform?

[flembat]

I needed transformers to talk to a local copy of Qwen, and a GUI, using tkinter on macos intel ventura. It all worked eventually. I have not got the AMD GPU to work yet. I don't hold python in anyway responsible for the GPU problem. There was some issue with urllib, and it still complains that my numpy is the wrong version. Its all ok.