I know it’s just a meme but Python is seriously the worst language I have ever worked with. Not because of language itself, this is fine for scripting, but because of the terrible tooling. pip is the most unreliable package manager I’ve seen, packages installed system wide collide with what you’re trying to install for you project, environment virtualization and version management is a mess with venv/pyenv and more doing same things differently (the standard can’t decide on just one tool for that) and on top of that you have all the ruff/black/mypy and many more offering same features but not really with a new tools coming out all the time. I not a Python expert but even people I worked with that are were confused but all this. I haven’t seen such a mess in any other language.
Pyenv and venv are independent and don’t do any ‘same thing’, so you must be really talented to mess them up or be confused by them.
I also don’t know what’s difficult about understanding why the system-wide installation exists or how to add local modules to the path (which venv does for you anyway).
Yes, you have to be talented not to get lost in the pyenv (‘env’ as in ‘version’ management), venv, virtualenv, pyvenv and god knows what else. All those tools either manager versions, virtual environments or both. Super simple! I’m sure you’re enjoying working with them and that’s fine. I avoid it.
If a programmer needs a whole ‘standard’ to figure out that two orthogonal tools are all they need, it’s not a good sign.
Learn to RTFM, noob.
Have you ever actually read the manual? I have. It’s thousands of words for how to build a single python library. If you look at almost any other language it will be a tenth of that. Ruby’s is literally like 4 commands total. The only people that think Python tooling is even halfway good are people that have never used a language with proper tooling.
https://chriswarrick.com/blog/2023/01/15/how-to-improve-python-packaging/
