This makes a lot of good points, but some bad ones.
Esp. the "installing python" one. Just use your package manager to install all the versions you need.
And for "Packaging and Dependencies", just use pip.
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#12The name says it all. This is much more readable compared to urllib2
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#13This makes a lot of good points, but some bad ones. Esp. the "installing python" one. Just use your package manager to install all the versions you need. And for "Packaging and Dependencies", just use pip.
I agree that people should use a good package manager, but the reality of the corporate env world is that you'll be trying to use the latest Python on some ridiculously old unix install without root access, and you'll never be able to get IT to install the latest for all users.
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#14I like the presentation, but for me it just underlines how it's smart to stay far away from Python. It's great that it's improving, but many other languages have a much better library/API situation than Python has had for years already. Will Python catch up fast enough?
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#15yes please and thank you muchly. puts away yak shaving contraption
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#16Anybody have a text version of this? I got maybe 30 slides in before I got too annoyed to continue.
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#17The portion that explains of how subprocess shuns dev/ops guys in the beginning is so true. Perl/Bash colleagues at work would basically ask me how to perform output=`command`. Once they seen subprocess, they would continue writing their script in Bash/Perl.
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#18I wish that the developers of requests module stop changing it's API -- code that was working just fine with 0.6.4 suddenly began finding missing methods in version 0.8.5
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#19Great presentation on a library I've loved (and used) for awhile. However according to slide 42 I need to rewrite the regex module? I'm so busy this week though.
edit: If anyone wants to see a real-world refactor from HTTPLib/2 to requests, I did so with Pysolr here: https://github.com/mattdeboard/pysolr/commit/db63d8910dec42d...
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#20I wish that the developers of requests module stop changing it's API -- code that was working just fine with 0.6.4 suddenly began finding missing methods in version 0.8.5
All changes are for the best, I promise. API will stable by 1.0.