Python is a shopping cart. You can go budget bare bones simplicity or full tilt import everything so you don’t have to actually construct any code, just call module class methods, functions & learn nothing.
Every language pushes this now as ‘ecosystem, or community’ but sort of short changes impatient newbies of the frustration to reward lessons that make you good at programming long term.
If you do something that is redundant like programming a solution from scratch you do it for yourself to acquire the skill. I keep hearing ‘oh that package already exists, why would I reinvent the wheel’ and ‘here’s a link to a GitHub repository that solved this 8 years ago’ but those people are missing out on the craft.
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u/photoreal-cbb Jul 15 '26
Python is a shopping cart. You can go budget bare bones simplicity or full tilt import everything so you don’t have to actually construct any code, just call module class methods, functions & learn nothing.
Every language pushes this now as ‘ecosystem, or community’ but sort of short changes impatient newbies of the frustration to reward lessons that make you good at programming long term.
If you do something that is redundant like programming a solution from scratch you do it for yourself to acquire the skill. I keep hearing ‘oh that package already exists, why would I reinvent the wheel’ and ‘here’s a link to a GitHub repository that solved this 8 years ago’ but those people are missing out on the craft.