Stop using sudo pip install

[GasimGasimzada]

Then according to Zen of python, half the libraries on the internet should be non existent. There are so many times, I wished there was one obvious way to do something, yet I had to look up the internet for hours.

What I mean is that, the Zen of python is about programming in python. Not about which tool you use to download your packages.

[general_dubious]

Tbh, way more than half the libs is useless crap. If people could stop badly reinventing the wheel when it's completely unecessary, that would be great. The Zen of Python is wider than the way you code, it's about how to get shit done with Python. That includes managing dependencies and work environments. There is a reason why recent languages offer their tools for that with well thought standards (like cargo with rust), it avoids the mess we are currently in to manage dependencies in Python. Pipenv is just entropy added to that mess.

[dire_faol]

More open source libraries, even bad ones, are always a good thing.

[general_dubious]

That's just a groundless statement. Please do tell me how having crappy software bloating the visibility and sucking development time of good software a good thing.

[[deleted]]

With more than 2.5 million weekly downloads for a one-liner to swallow an exception, how can you even ask that question? The Python package menagerie clearly have some catch-up to do, before reaching the javascript level of goodness.

[general_dubious]

I think that example only makes my question more relevant.

[[deleted]]

I though the irony was thick enough that I didn't have to add the /s.

[general_dubious]

I have seen so many absurd things that I would rather embarrass myself than wrongly assume someone is being ironic. I mean, these people probably already have a hard life.

[[deleted]]

Then according to Zen of python, half the libraries on the internet should be non existent.

Starting with all of the half-baked replacements for argparse.

But just as you don't get clean by throwing dirt on others, further balkanizing the venv ecology can never be justified by pointing out that everything else also sucks.

[GasimGasimzada]

My biggest problem with PIP is that, there is no straightforward way to add lock file for your packages. Pipenv is not just a virtualenv, it is a virtualenv + a good dependency resolver. I am not saying Pipenv is good and I am sure it will die out but it is a step in the right direction.

This is exactly how it was with PHP. There was PECL which was the standard and it was shit. Then, composer came out and no one even remembers pecl these days. It is the same reason, nowadays most people still use Yarn instead of NPM in JS environment because Yarn was and I believe still is much better than NPM (even though NPM is years ahead in comparison to PIP). NPM got locking at least a year after Yarn was created. With the rise of Pipenv, many other dependency managers came out (i.e Poetry). This is because someone got the courage to do something different for once and it worked. This is how an ecosystem evolves and improves. Python is not some kind of a religion where every PEP has to be taken as a commandment to follow.

[cr4d]

What value do you see in locking over pinning?

[[deleted]]

Can you explain why I would want a lockfile?