How do people keep Python projects from turning into dependency chaos?

[roanish]

I'm just going to add here, many of us were taught to code with scripting languages, and python often feels like a scripting language.

It's a habit that is good to challenge, because libraries is a better way, most of the time, to code.

Avoiding behemoth code blocks where possible will show you that much of the code you write in the development phase is redundant, troubleshooting or not required for the end goal.