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This is 99% of the complaints in these threads. "I had this very specific problem and I refuse to handle it by using best practise, and I have not used python to anything else, but I have very strong opinions".




I've had many problems with many python scripts over the many years. Problems that I did not have with other scripts from other ecosystems. And that's just sticking to scripts and not languages in general.

A random sh script from 40 years ago usually works or works with only the tiniest adjustment on any current system of any unix-like.

A random py script from 6 months ago has a good chance of not working even on the same system let alone another system of the same platform, let alone another system of a different platform.

Now please next by all means assume that I probably am only complaining about the 2->3 trasition and nothing that actually applies since 15 years ago.


>A random py script from 6 months ago has a good chance of not working even on the same system

This just isn't true and nothing I have experienced over many years of python programming.

Maybe your problems with python scripts (is it scripts or program?) is an issue with the code?




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