There ware a time when I wondered if I should learn Ruby or Python. These days, unless I'm going to be a Rails dev, hands-down Python.
Python Is Eating the World
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#82Recently was trying to convert Python to C#... there are few things that are as absolutely incomprehensible as a Python programmer being clever with numpy. I gave up on the conversion. Perhaps this is a point for Python’s flexibility, but I’d say it’s just a waste.
Here’s the code. Try to convert this to any C style language.
mins = X.min(axis=0)
maxs = X.max(axis=0)
idxs = np.random.choice(range(self.dim), self.dim-self.exlevel-1, replace=False) # Pick the indices for which the normal vector elements should be set to zero acccording to the extension level.
self.n = np.random.normal(0,1,self.dim) # A random normal vector picked form a uniform n-sphere. Note that in order to pick uniformly from n-sphere, we need to pick a random normal for each component of this vector.
self.n[idxs] = 0
self.p = np.random.uniform(mins,maxs) # Picking a random intercept point for the hyperplane splitting data.
w = (X-self.p).dot(self.n) Re: Python Is Eating the World
#83Python has a lot of problems that really slow down development, but they are all fixable. The biggest issue, in my opinion, is in dependency management. Python has a horrible dependency management system, from top-to-bottom. Why do I need to make a "virtual environment" to have separate dependencies, and then source it my shell? Why do I need to manually add version numbers to a file? Why isn't there any builtin way…
Pipenv has felt to me like a pretty solid solution. It's not perfect but it's a lot better than the other options.
Re: Python Is Eating the World
#84Python has a lot of problems that really slow down development, but they are all fixable. The biggest issue, in my opinion, is in dependency management. Python has a horrible dependency management system, from top-to-bottom. Why do I need to make a "virtual environment" to have separate dependencies, and then source it my shell? Why do I need to manually add version numbers to a file? Why isn't there any builtin way…
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#85Are there any good cloud solutions for developing in Python? I’ve been using Pythonista on the iPad but it doesn’t support numpy.
It does now: http://omz-software.com/pythonista/ (just below the blue bar).
Re: Python Is Eating the World
#86Python has a lot of problems that really slow down development, but they are all fixable. The biggest issue, in my opinion, is in dependency management. Python has a horrible dependency management system, from top-to-bottom. Why do I need to make a "virtual environment" to have separate dependencies, and then source it my shell? Why do I need to manually add version numbers to a file? Why isn't there any builtin way…
Is there a model dependency management system for some other language that addresses all these issues? Dependency hell is everywhere.
I find rust with cargo and go with go-modules to be pretty nice to work with.
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#87Python has a lot of problems that really slow down development, but they are all fixable. The biggest issue, in my opinion, is in dependency management. Python has a horrible dependency management system, from top-to-bottom. Why do I need to make a "virtual environment" to have separate dependencies, and then source it my shell? Why do I need to manually add version numbers to a file? Why isn't there any builtin way…
Is there a model dependency management system for some other language that addresses all these issues? Dependency hell is everywhere.
Does it have to be?
I have found that I would rather code my own versions of some libraries so I have control over it. Even if there is some extra long term maintenance and some up front dev costs, it's paid off already a number of times.
Re: Python Is Eating the World
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
I feel uncomfortable with the fact that people feel a third-party solution is the best way to solve this mess. It can also get messy when packages installed with pip, pip3, conda and apt are all entangled with one another in various ways.
It’s unfortunate that it’s third party, but conda has the unquestionable advantage of being the only Python-centric packaging system that has a reasonable shared binary library story
I'm curious, do you not find wheels + manylinux reasonable? I agree that until recently, Conda definitely had that advantage, but now that you can `pip install scipy` and have that get you a working library and not try to compile things on your machine what does Conda offer beyond that?
I guess one thing Conda has that the pip ecosystem doesn't is that it supports installing non-Python shared libraries like libcurl on their own. Is that an advantage? (We absolutely could replicate that in the pip ecosystem if that was worth doing, and it's even not totally unprecedented to have non-Python binaries on PyPI.)
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#89Python has a lot of problems that really slow down development, but they are all fixable. The biggest issue, in my opinion, is in dependency management. Python has a horrible dependency management system, from top-to-bottom. Why do I need to make a "virtual environment" to have separate dependencies, and then source it my shell? Why do I need to manually add version numbers to a file? Why isn't there any builtin way…
Is there a model dependency management system for some other language that addresses all these issues? Dependency hell is everywhere.
maven for java
Re: Python Is Eating the World
#90If only its package management were as easy as its syntax... I wish pip worked the same way as npm: -g flag installs it globally, otherwise it creates a local "python_modules" folder I can delete at any time. And optionally I can save the dependency versioning info to some package.json... Instead, pip is a nightmarish experience where it fails half the time and I have no idea where anything is being installed to and…
Just use Poetry. https://poetry.eustace.io
Man that looks fantastic. It looks so useful that it ought to be an official part of Python.