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I think you mean the package management rather than the ecosystem. For all its failings, the python ecosystem (for machine learning / data science in particular) is unmatched, which is why python is so popular. As a "professional" python user (who got there in a roundabout way), I'd say the biggest problem with package management is all the conflicting advice and different ways to accomplish the same thing (there are…
Python's package management is to package managers as C++ is to programming languages: everyone who uses it understands about 10% of it, and no two people understand the same 10%.
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BTW, I know setup.py method. How much is that in percents?