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I set up my Python env once 5 years ago. Haven't touched it since. It would probably take me an hour to set it up again. Still I produce quality Python code (
by BurningFrog 4y ago
I set up my Python env once 5 years ago. Haven't touched it since.
It would probably take me an hour to set it up again.
Still I produce quality Python code (almost) every day. To me, the skills are entirely orthogonal.
- semitones 4y agoYour experience is probably in the minority of Python developers. There have been plenty of updates to popular packages + the core interpreter during that time, updates to package/env managers (e.g. poetry). It's one thing if you're using python to solve projecteuler problems, but it's another if you're writing any full-stack code that has a variety of dependencies. It's great when you can set up a dev environment and then "forget" about it for some time, but 5 years is an exceedingly long time to not touch an env setup, and it implies that you are not really working with external dependencies, or too many other coworkers.
- BurningFrog 4y agoWe're using Poetry, and I frequently update dependencies. But I was commenting on this: > If you can't setup a python virtual env in about 30s... don't apply for a python job.