Using Python, How can I create a bot/script that let’s me re-post a subreddit’s post to Lemmy?
Just wanted to do a simple little project to practice my programming skills.
I just need to know the outline/backbone of things I should know to do this project.
Ohh you got python3 installed but this script is only for python2. Oh no you want a specific version of a package you gotta create a fucking venv for it! And hope that you dont forget next time you start :) Oh you renamed a variable of a class. You gotta catch them all! With the (sorry) worst error messages i have ever seen. You can still delete system32 with it.
Almost every language has versions. Python’s is fairly stable. Python2 has been end of life for a few years now, and I don’t think there’s a python 4 even on the horizon.
Almost every language has dependency management. Use an IDE.
Use an IDE with refactor->rename. I’ve never had a problem with renaming. Right now when I went to see what it would do, it suggested correctly “did you mean [correct variable name]?”. But even without that it just says my class has no attribute with the incorrect name, which is about what I would expect. If you think these are bad error messages you should stay away from JavaScript.
Most languages running as admin can delete files. I don’t see how that’s a relevant critique of python.
- Yeah ok ig
- IDE doesnt have anything to do with pip, it can install it sometimes, but for version controll its uterly garbo
- IDE is sometimes impossible to catch the variable. ( VS Code, Pycharm )
You wont change my mind about that pile of trash named python.
I would cite some cool dude ;)
Python is an immature language that was populated because the academic computer science business is immature and does not have a definition for “best practices”
Just use a virtual environment and let your ide manage it. Or a docker container if you’re doing production work.
Any language may have trouble if you willy-nilly rename things by hand. That’s not specific to python.
I have such mixed emotions about Python. I have to concede its uses. Especially when working with data and data scientists. A lot of people use it. There is a good amount of existing code floating around that can be re-used, etc. Its never the first language I reach for, but I have to accept that a lot of people use it.
But OMG, I have had to re-install my OS more than once due to python versioning issues. Not recently sure, I think I have it figured out now with virtualenv and pyenv, but it literally has caused me to reformat twice after getting too deep into dependency version mismatch hell.
