• cocobean@bookwormstory.social
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      1 year ago

      I had to use Python for a bit at work and it was confusing

      pipenv, venv, virtualenv, poetry…wtf is all this shit

      a.b vs a['b'] vs a.get('b')…wtf is a KeyError

      • richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one
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        1 year ago

        What happens in other languages you use when you try to access a non-existing key for a hash/map/dict?

        What language do you use that accessing an object attribute is the same that accessing a dict key?

        What knowledge do you have (or not) that KeyError is a mistery to you?

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            1 year ago

            Because that’s prone to errors. And the Zen of Python includes “explicit is better than implicit” and “Errors should never pass silently”. Languages that do otherwise create bad habits.

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      1 year ago

      For me I really appreciate that doing anything in Python is trivial. Want to do scripting? Sure. Want to do http requests? Why not.

      The only thing I’d say is difficult is making a UI. In those cases you’re sometimes better off using django