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This author is an apologist for the slander of Tim Peters: https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1f00qdo/no_vote_of_... He cites Glyph Lefkowitz to support him, who now gives advice on lunch vs. dinner networking strategies at PyCons. Which should be taken seriously: Being in the right circles and talking is all that matters in the Python ecosystem.
> playsound This library is unfortunately effectively abandoned -- it hasn’t received any updates in over four years, and its latest version doesn’t work at all : https://github.com/TaylorSMarks/playsound/issues/101 (A workaround exists: downgrading to version 1.2.2, but that comes with its own issues.) The last time I experimented with audio in Python, I was surprised by how lacking its multimedia libraries are. For…
I'm curious why you didn't end up including this material?
Page count. Automate the Boring Stuff with Python is supposed to be a beginner book for people with no coding experience, but it's almost 600 pages. The biggest hurdle to coding isn't being "smart" enough, but rather getting over the intimidation factor. The editor recommended we cut this chapter. It made me realize that even though I work with multimedia stuff all the time, this isn't really something most office wo…