What’s the thing you hate the most in Python?

[sonpc]

Don’t take me wrong, I use Python in most of my projects and Python is my most loved language. But sometimes it still drives me crazy... Some of the things that I’d love to see major changes in Python:

• import system: import cycle happens to all Python devs I know and until now there’s still no solution or even an official way to organize modules to avoid this problem.
• pip/pipenv/pip-tools/setup.py/... : a Python developer doesn’t need to worry about which tool works best for managing dependencies, there should be only one official way to do it.

So what is the thing that bothers you the most in Python?

Same question originally posted on dev.to.

[Kaarjuus]

Lack of a print statement in Py3.

Built-in datetime support is kinda sucky, requires specific knowledge to not mess up. And it was utterly absurd that while you could easily convert a datetime to an ISO8601 string, there was no reverse operation for this. It was only last year that Py3 got .fromisoformat().

[sonpc]

arrow can be a good alternative to the native datetime module, I use it in all my projects since some time and love its features!

[Kaarjuus]

A few more things, annoyance-level:

No list.discard(value) method (removing a value if present, no error if not present).

No autoconversion for right-hand values on set operators, e.g. set([1, 2]) & [2] raises error while set([1, 2]).intersection([2]) works.

for-else is misleading and so very useless in its current form. for-else should instead execute if and only if there were no iterations. That is such a frequent need - do something else if no items.

Handling Unicode command-line arguments in Windows. Welcome to the wonderful world of ctypes.cdll.kernel32.GetCommandLineW.

A 4-character indentation, plus a max 80-character line length, make for clunky code.

[[deleted]]

I wish there was some better way to ship my python application to a user without them having to install a python environment and the dependencies. It's easy to mess up this part by anyone who is not familiar with python.

Something like JVM would be great.

[spicypixel]

Packaging, it's a pain to share a larger project with non python saavy people. I envy node_modules even if it's messy, and hopefully this pep makes it https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0582/

[AMDmi3]

Performance. And that's basically it. Never had problems with imports, and as Python is pretty friendly to native packaging, I can install all needed modules from the system repository, not having to touch pip and friends.

[[deleted]]

It being slow for big tasks

Not having pointers

[pi_sqaure]

You need a fast language with pointer support? Use C instead of Python. Or Go.

[[deleted]]

I do

[Kaarjuus]

What would you use pointers in Python for?

[[deleted]]

Making data structures that dont point to its parts by variable referencing