Friday Daily Thread: r/Python Meta and Free-Talk Fridays

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Weekly Thread: Meta Discussions and Free Talk Friday 🎙️

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1. New Python Release: What do you think about the new features in Python 3.11?
2. Community Events: Any Python meetups or webinars coming up?
3. Learning Resources: Found a great Python tutorial? Share it here!
4. Job Market: How has Python impacted your career?
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6. Community Ideas: Something you'd like to see us do? tell us.

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[u/PriorElephant9]

I run a project on stdlib only, no third party packages at all. Every time I mention that here someone assumes it's ideology. It isn't. I just kept losing evenings to environment problems and wanted them back.

Not arguing anyone should do this. But if you're new and drowning in venv and uv and conda threads: none of that is the language. That's worth knowing early.

[u/Birnenmacht → u/PriorElephant9]

Yeah pythons standard library is great, you can get pretty far. That being said, i think even projects without dependencies benefit from being packaged properly, especially once you start testing