Re: Python

Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]> Sun, 14 Dec 2025 23:29:38 -0000 (UTC)

Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers,comp.lang.python
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 14 Dec 2025 11:56:42 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:

> My issues with python are:
> - It's using indentations, so when I comment a block of code to see
>   what happens, it breaks everything and I have to manage the
>   indentations. I can't just comment/uncomment a block of code as I do
>   with other programming languages.

To no-op a block of code

    ...
    ... block of code ...
    ...

turn it into

    if False :
        ...
        ... block of code ...
        ...
    #end if

> - It's sold as an easy programming language. Which is true for
>   discovering it. And once I'm using it in the real life, I discover the
>   hard reality. A lot of things that should just work don't because it's
>   an exception.

Example(s)?

> - The version management is awful. There are a lot of ways to be able to
>   use different packages than the ones used by the system.

Maybe I’m unusual, but I make little use of Python packages that are not 
available with the distro. So distro package version management is good 
enough for me.