I got a bot on lemmy that scrapes espn for sports/football updates using regex to retrieve the JSON that is embedded in the html file, it works perfectly so far 🤷‍♂️

https://programming.dev/post/38467491

MongoDB handles web scale. You turn it on and it scales right up

What big advantages does pathlib provide? os.path works just fine

That’s for images though, not text content.

While I agree to some extent, if not var is more than clear enough for anyone that knows python. If that pattern confuses someone, they probably aren’t at level where they should be dealing with python at a professional level. The same way you would expect people to understand pointers and references before delving into C code.

This sort of stuff is something I taught first year engineering student in their programming introductory course, it’s just how python is written.

For what it’s worth, it’s sort of similar in Erlang/Elixir. If you want to check if a list is empty, checking the length of the list is discouraged. Instead you would use Enum.empty?().

I’d argue that if it’s strict explicitness you want, python is the wrong language. if not var is a standard pattern in python. You would be making your code slower for no good reason.

I think it’s a thing mainly for hobby programmers and young students that don’t have a solid foundation/grasp of programming yet, which also likely makes up a big portion of programming meme communities.

Functional programming would have quite the problem if it wasn’t a thing.

It would be nice to have way for admins and mods to make notes on people. E.g. If you are giving someone a warning, you currently need to use an external tool to log the warning.

I’m not anti bash or fish, I’ve written in both just this week, but if we’re talking about readability/syntax as this post is about, and you want an alternative to bash, I’d say python is a more natural alternative. Fish syntax is still fairly ugly compared to most programming languages in my opinion.

Different strokes for different folks I suppose.

For example, how could it know whether cat $foo should be cat "$foo", or whether the script actually relies on word splitting? It’s possible that $foo intentionally contains multiple paths.

Last time I used ShellCheck (yesterday funnily enough) I had written ports+=($(get_elixir_ports)) to split the input since get_elixir_ports returns a string of space separated ports. It worked exactly as intended, but ShellCheck still recommended to make the splitting explicit rather than implicit.

The ShellCheck docs recommended

IFS=" " read -r -a elixir_ports <<< "(get_elixir_ports)"
ports+=("${elixir_ports[@]}")

As someone who worked as a TA at uni for the introductory course to programming for engineers, which used python, that never once a problem lol.

Mac users were recommended to install anaconda rather than python directly, and that was just about it.

If you’re going to write scripts that requires installing software, might as well use something like python though? Most Linux distros ship also ship with python installed

Writing Lua code that also interacts with C code that uses 0 indexing is an awful experience. Annoys me to this day even though haven’t used it for 2 years

How about 8 hours troubleshooting while trying to find the right documentation.

Plenty of projects have exe files available on the release page though, it’s just hard to find unless you’re familiar with github.

Windows/Microsoft’s biggest selling point is the backwards compatibility though. It has been the corner stone of their software development.

The sea should be marked as C considering that’s what you’ll discover when you get deep into it.

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