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Python was one of the first languages I've tried I actually enjoyed programming in. I hope to continue leveraging my investment in learning python by using it
by kayman 10y ago
Python was one of the first languages I've tried I actually enjoyed programming in.
I hope to continue leveraging my investment in learning python by using it for a long time.
So far I haven't been forced to use Python 3.
I've tried a few times but always found it easier to just go back to python (2.7).
I figure eventually I have to use Python 3 but at this point, my life has been fine without upgrading to python3.
- unethical_ban 10y agoAs a writer of "quick n' dirty" webapps for internal use, I use python3 because philosophically, I want to help the world move forward, and the standard library has more stuff in it.
- brianwawok 10y agoDitto. I have submitted at least 10 PRs to fix Python3 bugs in OSS projects directly because of this. So perhaps I have made the world .000001% better.
- ambivalence 10y agoThank you!
- IndianAstronaut 10y agoI think Python is amazing to get small stuff ip and running and quick scripts, but it quickly becomes a nightmare as the project scales up.
- TylerE 10y agoWhy would you say that? The main Python project I work on is 271k LOC... no problems here.
- IndianAstronaut 10y agoThe lack of type checking makes it much harder to coordinate right inputs and outputs. Doable, but makes the overhead much harder than when you do have it.
- 75j 10y agoWhat did you find difficult about Python 3? I switched around 3.1, though granted I was still a novice programmer then and didn't have to port any legacy code. I had so many issues with Unicode in Python 2 (some may have been my own ignorance at the time, but with 3 a lot of those issues magically disappeared). Since text processing / NLP is my main focus, it was an easy decision to switch.