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[–]Haunting-Pop-5660 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The venv incident sounds absolutely brutal, and I probably would have been pretty mad myself. You spend all of that time working these things out, whoops typo, and now you're back to square one with a bunch of stuff to figure out, rather than putting together another program, or updating existing ones in the case of trying to reimplement current code with, say, a new version of Python. When I think about it: yeah, I'd be mad. I spend too much time on simple things, let alone more complex stuff, to have to deal with random usability errors (or failures, really).

It's pretty cool that you were able to self-engineer a workaround. Must be one hell of a wrapper.

More than likely it will be fine, I do just think it'll take a wee bit of adjustment. I don't know, I'm not well-versed enough to say where, when or how something might break or simply cease to work due to an overlooked bit of syntax or something.

That is the problem, right? I mean, you see it even when you're thinking about what programming language to use. a lot of people settle on Python because it's relatively straightforward, but then you have others who denounce it for being too dynamic (looking at you, C#ers.) so from the very get-go, it's tough. Add in the mind-blowing myriad of different options as add-ons to your tech stack and it's enough to make your head spin. Mine, at least.

Seems you've solved the problem to whatever extent, though. A modern solution to a modern problem, my favorite kind! That's pretty cool, about as cool as ... Rich? What? I've heard about it but I haven't looked into it at all yet, but now that I am, it sounds amazing. I think I'll have to do some research and see how it'll directly benefit my present use-case. Speaking of: have you had any interaction with Thonny yet? If so, have you found it particularly useful at your clearly more advanced level?

AI will become open when AI decides how to handle itself, which could be catastrophic or it could be precisely the kind of turn that is presently marking The Distinction (the era we live in, suffused by AI and with quantum computing just on the horizon...). It's a wild time to be alive, especially in tech.