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> Almost anything can "work" Yet after yesterday's attempt to get a small cherrypy webserver running, python doesn't.

• mattbillenstein 7y ago
  If 1 out of 100 people fail to do a thing, it doesn't mean that thing is bad...
  • yellowapple 7y ago
    1 out of 100 might be understating it, though. Or it might be overstating it. Who knows? As another data point, I've had very few good experiences with Python. The primary exception has been with PyQt5, and chiefly by going with Qt's conventions instead of Python's (i.e. being as Qt-like and un-Pythonic as possible).
    • isostatic 7y ago
      Here's a perfect example of the python community https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54831915/python-3-5-2-installation-of-cherrypy-with-apt https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54831915/python-3-5-2-in... > I want to run this on a production Server with ubuntu 16.04. My Sysadmin tells me that I shall not use pip or github repository, because of ... something wrong with using anything but apt ... he says. Sysadmin is right. First response? > sudo apt-get install python-pip Now there are ways to convert modules to debs (or rpms on redhat style machines) so they can be managed cleanly across an estate, but that's not the python way.